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from the Empire Online This Year's Love Opens: 19/02/1999 UK Starring: Kathy Burke, Ian Hart, Catherine McCormack, Dougray Scott Director: David Kane Screenwriter: David Kane Details: 1 hr. 58 mins. Cert. 18 (tbc) UK A six-way couple-swapping romp set in London's trendy Camden Town. The early word on this David Kane-helmed Britflick has been favourable, pitching it as a rival to Notting Hill (the Julia Roberts-Hugh Grant romancer from the Four Weddings And A Funeral team) as this year's Full Monty. Not that it's hard for home-generated fare to stand out just now amid filmic carbuncles such as The Acid House. The action in This Year's Love centres around a group of late 20s/early 30s drifter types each having a stab at happiness in contemporary London. On the girls' side there's airport cleaner Marey (Burke), a no-nonsense barrel-shaped funny "bird"; Sophie (Ehle) a twitchy, self-loathing well-bred trustafarian; and clothes designer Hannah (McCormack), a girl who shags her fiancˇ's best mate days before their wedding.
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