Hampstead

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A nonsensical little film, but pleasant and enjoyable. A little out of touch with real social housing problems maybe. It has the Jane Austen theme of destitution when one is down to one's "last servant". I couldn't ,in all honesty, feel heartfelt compassion for a silly woman whose lot was not really terribly tragic. Oh, for the enviable position of having to sell everything and still end up living in idyllic retirement in a "roses round the door" beside the river, cottage.My sympathies lay with her son. Trying to argue some sense into a spoilt,helpless, twerp of a Mother.

I gave it a six star becouse it was a good movie but will smith was not in it

The true story of a hermit who squatted on a patch of land in Hampstead and got adverse possession has been stretched into a thin rom com. Emily (Diane Keaton) is an American widow financially struggling to live in her apartment in a well heeled part of Hampstead. She meets grizzled Donald (Brendan Gleeson) a loner who has been living off the land in a makeshift cabin within some abandoned hospital grounds. When the area where Donald resides is earmarked for development. Emily helps Donald out to fight the developers and they form an unlikely alliance. Hampstead aims to be a quirky rom com with eccentric characters. It is a poorly developed screenplay based on a few true facts. Keaton seems to be the variation of a stock character that she has been playing since Annie Hall. Gleeson is basically the gruff tramp. No one in the movie appears to be a genuine person apart from the character played by Phil Davis.