Quando uma dupla de cartógrafos Ingleses, Anson e Garrad, deve dizer aos moradores de uma aldeia galesa que sua montanha é apenas uma colina, a comunidade de Fynnon Garw fica extremamente ofendida. E se propõe a mudar isso. Em 1917 uma dupla de cartógrafos militares Ingleses, Reginald Anson (Hugh Grant) e George Garrad (Ian McNeice), está percorrendo o País de Gales fazendo medições da altura de diversas elevações para o novo mapa que o governo Britânico encomendou. E acabam chegando ao povoado de Fynnon Garw cuja pequena população tem muito orgulho de sua "Montanha". Porém após as primeiras medições verificam que a "Montanha" não atinge os 1.000 pés necessários para ter esse título. E devem dizer aos moradores da aldeia galesa que sua "Montanha" é apenas uma colina. A comunidade ofendida se propõe a mudar isso.
An adaptation of the novel by Kingsley Amis about a group of university friends reunited in retirement. Alun Weaver has found success as a celebrated London-based writer. After returning home to Wales with his alluring wife Rhiannon he reunites with old friends who chose to remain in the valleys. Long dormant romance are rekindled and rivalries resurrected in this turbulent story of ageing, friendship, lust, nostalgia and nationalism.
Young aristocrat Anthony Raine returns home from India to find the farmers of Pembrokeshire protesting about the rates of a tollgate run by The Whitman Turnpike Trust, headed by the drunken Lord Sarn. So Raine dons a mask and, calling himself Rebecca, instructs his followers to dress as women as they attack the tolls, leading the common people to victory over their masters.
Former Welsh rugby hero Bleddyn Morgan has his life in New Zealand interrupted by a deathbed confession that leads to a replay of a controversial 1966 All Blacks/Wales rugby match - with the original teams. The now old men pull on their jerseys one more time while Morgan deals with his past on his return home. (from IMDB)
The story covers eighty years in the lives of a pair of Welsh identical twins with an unusual bond, as they go through war, love affairs, and land disputes.
A group of travellers, each with a personal problem that they want to hide, arrives at a mysterious Welsh country inn. There is a certain strangeness in the air as they are greeted by the innkeeper and his daughter.. TV remake of the 1944 film THE HALFWAY HOUSE.
