Hope Springs (2003 film)

Hope Springs is a 2003 romanticcomedy film, based on the novel New Cardiff, by Charles Webb, known for his novel The Graduate. An English painter, Colin played by Colin Firth, comes to the town of Hope, Vermont in 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.citation needed

Suddenly though, the attractive, sophisticated, witty and charming Vera shows up to get Colin back. Extremely selfconfident and oblivious to anyones ideas or feelings that dont match hers, Vera denies that Colin is no longer interested and relentlessly pursues him, while finding out about him and Mandy. Vera exploits Mandys insecurities about her new relationship with Colin and being a simple country person, while manipulating Colins memories of their shared romantic and cultural history. Vera and Colins twenty years together adds to Veras leverage, of couples that inevitably take each other for granted or stay together out of habit, but Colin tells her that, In one minute...short span of time...you not only became unimportant as an aim in life, but also the very thing I need to flee from in order to find happiness.Later Colin goes to Veras hotel room to tell her to leave Mandy and him alone and go back to England, however she changes into sexy underwear while smoking and sets off the fire alarm. Mandy sees the two together in front of the hotel during the fire evacuation and assumes Colin took her back. Colin tries to clear up the misunderstanding with Mandy but the only thing she wants from him is a promise to never contact her. Colin agrees on the condition that she get a passport. The residents of Hope are small town unsophisticates but very familiar with personal dilemmas and the ordinary common feelings in everyones lives, of loneliness, heartbreak, confusion, and naturally join in Colin and Mandys drama. With other motives, Colin flatters the town mayor with a personal portrait and accepts an offer of an appreciation gift. ........

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