this film be a calculated attempt to cash in the success of sex in the city and four wedding and a funeral . in fact and if they would call it sex at a funeral and they might have do good at the box office . but the film fall between two stool and can not get up . the character spout improbably bright dialog and but never act in any way remotely recognizable a human . one arbitrary and senseless action follow another to advance what pass for a plot and and one soon tire of the falsity of the whole enterprise . andie macdowell get point for act her little heart out and but the performing honor be steal by imelda staunton and a of all thing and a police detective ( do not they have a height requirement over there . ) . ms. staunton seem unable to make a false move . would that we could say the same about the writer director . if notting hill annoy you a be bogus and stay away from this one . phonus bolognus on the half shell .