I liked it :lol: I love this story of these village people who wouldn't accept their mountain being reduced to a simple hill because this way their village wouldn't figure on any map :lol:
The period is during WW1, and two Englishmen come to this Welsh village (with a Welsh name I can't remember) to measure their mountain. If it is at least 1.000 feet then it'll be classified a mountain and it'll have a place in all the maps, and all the village cares a lot about it, and they're very disappointed when it comes out it's 20 feet short! Morgan the goat (Colm Meany) won't accept this (they all have nicknames, in this village) so he convinces everyone that they can change it, they can add the 20 feet themselves! Every man, woman or child is involved in bringing earth on the top. In the meantime the two Englishmen desperately wait to go on with their work, but they can't leave. They are all ally in keeping them stuck here, so they'll be present to measure it again! They sabotage their car, they tell them there are no trains, they try it all.
Btw, the man at the train station was too funny. They went to him again angry (well, the old man was angry, Anson was rather enjoying himself, I think) asking: why did you tell us there were no trains when I've learned there was one going to the North, and he replied simply: I thought you wanted to go East! and why is that? Because you're English, and England is to the East. I don't know you, but I loved this a lot, funny how he said it :like, go back to England, what are you doing in our Wales, you unwanted foreigners! but at the same time it was all done to keep them here :lol:
They work hard, but then it rains. They try to salvage the situation covering the top with the big cloth that was used to cover their car, so that it fills with water :lol: Still they won't give up: finally the rain stops but it's Sunday, and they don't work on God's day, but the reverend himself tells them to join him in that enterprise. They work even harder, using the grass from the school football field, all day they go up hill, and the reverend too, but he's old, he's like 82 or something, and all that work is too much for him. He dies there and wants to be buried on the top of the mountain! He really cared about it, huh!?!
The younger Englishman, Reginald Anson (Hugh Grant) is fascinated by it all, by them, specially by Betty (Tara Fitzgerald) who had a story with Morgan and came here because he called for her help to keep them here. She doesn't have to try all that hard, because the old one keeps drinking so much he's 'out' the whole time, and Anson is quite happy to have her company :-)
At the end, he goes with them up the hill, helping them, but when they finish it's too dark to take his measurements, and everybody thinks it's over beause Anson and his collegue really have to take the first train in the morning. He's sorry, he says he'll be back, but this time it's Betty who insists. She tells him that if he'll leave he'll never come back (I agree with her, if he leaves , he leaves the village with a simple hill and leaves her too...) and she tells him that after all that work, the least he could do would be to wait right there for the sun to rise, so he would be able to measure it in time to catch his train, and if he would, she would gladly keep him company... and indeed she would, wouldn't she? Smart girl got herself a fiancée :-p when they came back in the morning they were engaged :-)
And yes, he had measured it again, and the village officially had its mountain!
So you see the title was to be taken seriously: when he went up the day before it was but a hill, but when they came down in the morning it was a mountain!
Apparently they cared a lot, and kept caring about their mountain through the years and the generations :-) that's fantastic, that is simply fantastic :lol:
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