Hugh Do Hugh Think Hugh Are?

The Englishman Who Went Up A Hill And Came Down A Mountain


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Lift Your Skinny Hills Like Antennas To Hughven! You ever been so proud of a mountain you artificially raised its height with the help of your local community? If not then you haven’t been doing it like they do it in ‘The Englishman Who Went Up A Hill And Came Down a Mountain’. In one of the half dozen movies from 1995 that Hugh Grant starred in (you could say he was at the ‘peak’ of his powers), we learn about rural Welsh pride, English imperialism and the hotness of cartography. We’re treated to sprawling vistas and local pubs, charming characters and amiable emergency town hall meetings. There’s peril, sure, but it’s mild, all in service of vibes so good they would have appeared in an Upworthy article, had it not been 1917. Also it’s World War I but don’t worry about it.
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