Hope Springs is a 2003 romantic-comedy film, based on the novel New Cardiff, by Charles Webb, about Colin (played by Colin Firth), an English painter who comes to the United States after a traumatic experience. It is there that he meets Mandy (Heather Graham), a nursing home worker who helps him get over the breakup between him and Vera (Minnie Driver). It was not a success at the box office. In Britain it made just over £1 million. Criticism was...
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Hope Springs is a 2003 romantic-comedy film, based on the novel New Cardiff, by Charles Webb, about Colin (played by Colin Firth), an English painter who comes to the United States after a traumatic experience. It is there that he meets Mandy (Heather Graham), a nursing home worker who helps him get over the breakup between him and Vera (Minnie Driver). It was not a success at the box office. In Britain it made just over £1 million. Criticism was also generally negative; the film receives only a 23% rating at Rotten Tomatoes.
When Colin arrives in Hope, Vermont, a patriotic town in Northeastern United States in the fall time, he checks into a hotel showing clear signs of emotional distress. The hotel manager, Joanie (Mary Steenburgen) sees the state he is in and calls over her friend Mandy to soothe him and take his mind off his troubles.
Colin and Mandy eventually fall in love with each other, Colin seeming to finally get over the loss of his fiancée Vera. Suddenly, Vera shows up in...
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