"The Bookshop"

 Just a delightful, offbeat movie as only the English can do it. It stars Emily Mortimer, Bill Nighy, and Patricia Clarkson. A young widow buys an old house in a small East Anglian town and is determined to open a bookshop there. She's met with some resistance from the townsfolk who want to turn it into an arts center. It's an amusing look at small town life in the late 1950s in Britain and features a charming cast of eccentric characters. I thoroughly enjoyed it--how can you not like a movie that features Bill Nighy?

4 out of 5 stars