The Very Thought of You

This bubbly romantic comedy stars an engaging Monica Potter as an American who impulsively moves to London to start a new life. On the plane, she’s wooed by Daniel, a record producer who offers to put her up in a fancy hotel. Once in England, she meets two of Daniel’s friends, who also succumb to her charms. Joseph Fiennes costars. Rufus Sewell, Tom Hollander., A flaky American woman (Monica Potter) tires of her monotonous life and moves to London, where three Brits fall in love with her., Directed with superb comic timing by Nick Hamm, Joseph Fiennes plays Laurence who, along with his two best friends Daniel and Frank are all pursuing the same woman – a Minneapolis girl called Martha, who has recently arrived in London with just $35 in her pocket., Nick Hamm (Talk of Angels) directed this U.K. romantic comedy following a group of British blokes and their encounters with an American woman in London. As Laurence (Joseph Fiennes, brother of Ralph Fiennes) narrates the tale to his neighbor, Dr. Pedersen (Ray Winstone), the scene flashes back to three days earlier: Laurence’s friend Daniel (Tom Hollander) is in the Minneapolis airport on a business trip when he spots blonde Martha (Monica Potter of Con Air) buying a “first flight to anywhere.” Daniel sits next to her on the plane and makes a London lunch date with her for the following day, but she’s a no-show. He expresses his disappointment to Laurence and unemployed actor Frank (Rufus Sewell of Cold Comfort Farm). Frank meets Martha accidentally in a park, realizes who she is, learns she’s in love and she intends to fly back to the U.S., and then makes a move on her (without telling her he knows Daniel). He loses track of her at an art gallery. Later, Laurence reveals that when he missed meeting Daniel at the airport, he wound up meeting Martha instead — a moment of mutual love. At this point, much like the structure of Stanley Kubrick’s The Killing (1956), the time is reset and previous events are repeated — from the POV of another character. The movie is only two-thirds complete when Laurence finishes his recap of the previous three days — so the story continues from that point. Shown at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival., Directed with superb comic timing by Nick Hamm, Joseph Fiennes plays Laurence who, along with his two best friends Daniel (Tom Hollander) and Frank (Rufus Sewell) are all pursuing the same woman – a Minneapolis girl called Martha (Monica Potter), who has recently arrived in London with just $35 in her pocket. Nick Hamm’s film is a wonderfully picaresque puzzle of a love story which weaves the four leads’ stories together without giving a hint to the final surprising conclusion., Directed with superb comic timing by Nick Hamm, Joseph Fiennes plays Laurence who, along with his two best friends Daniel (Tom Hollander) and Frank (Rufus Sewell) are all pursuing the same woman – a Minneapolis girl called Martha (Monica Potter), who has recently arrived in London with just $35 in her pocket. Nick Hamm’s film is a wonderfully picaresque puzzle of a love story which weaves the four leads’ stories together without giving a hint to the final surprising conclusion. (1998).