Hope Springs

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For 2007 TV Series, see Hope Springs (TV Series)

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. [1]

[edit] Characters

Colin Ware: Main character. British painter who is emotionally upset after receiving the news that his long time girlfriend Vera is getting married.

Vera Jones: British scheming girlfriend of Colin who travels to America to get Colin back.

Mandy : Free-spirited American nursing home attendant who tries to help out Colin and eventually becomes his love interest.

Joanie Fisher: Hotel owner and Mandy's best friend.

Fisher: Husband of Joanie, gives advice to Colin.

[edit] Plot

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 Hope and tries to get Colin back. Colin is no longer interested but Vera does not give up. Mandy sees the two together and assumes Colin took her back. After Colin promises never to talk to Mandy if she gets a passport, Vera, finally accepting she has lost her fiancé becomes Queen of Hope at the town festival.

Joanie calls Mandy and says that Colin's cousin was supposed to meet him and that she should pick him up at Hope Springs. When Mandy gets there she finds it is Colin and he gives her a wedding ring and proposes.

Colin, trying to be manly, carries her all the way back to the hotel where the movie ends.