Need an escape from all the chaos happening in the world right now? Then Hulu is the streamer for you.
The service has tons of escapist fare available with just a few button clicks and a reasonable subscription fee.
We’re big fans here at Watch With Us, which is why we’ve curated a brief list of three new to Hulu movies you should stream this weekend.
You can’t go wrong with The Jane Austen Book Club, It Could Happen to You or The Personal History of David Copperfield. Heck, watch all three and leave all your worries at the doorstep.
‘The Jane Austen Book Club’ (2007)
William Shakespeare is arguably the most famous English writer ever, but I’d wager Jane Austen is the most beloved. The author of Emma and Pride and Prejudice has charmed readers since the early 19th century, so it’s not unreasonable that the book club at the center of the 2007 film The Jane Austen Book Club revolves around someone who only wrote six complete novels and who has been dead for nearly 200 years.
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Like all of Austen’s heroines, the film’s main characters are all looking for love, even if they won’t admit to it. Sylvia (Amy Brenneman) is stuck in a dead marriage, while Jocelyn (Maria Bello) just got out of one and is blind to fellow member Grigg’s (Hugh Dancy) obvious interest in her. Prudie (Emily Blunt) is already in love with her husband, but is increasingly tempted by a student in the art class he teaches. As the club reads one Austen book after another, each member takes inspiration from the author’s headstrong heroines and finds the courage to take a chance on love again.
The Jane Austen Book Club benefits from a great cast of veteran actresses and then-up-and-comers who have since become genuine stars. Bello’s career has slowed in recent years, but she’s in her prime here as a woman who doesn’t want to open herself up to romance again. Blunt is also terrific — if a bit miscast — as a mousy (!) woman who wants to take a bite of the forbidden fruit Tery (Kevin Zegers) seems to offer her. The film is a chick-lit picture done right, and it will bring a much-needed smile to your face.
The Jane Austen Book Club is streaming on Hulu.
‘It Could Happen to You’ (1994)
What would you do if you won the lottery? That’s a common enough question, but the charming 1994 movie goes a bit further with it. When kind NYPD cop Charlie (Nicolas Cage) doesn’t have money to tip broke waitress Yvonne (Bridget Fonda) at his favorite Queens diner, he offers a deal — he’ll come back tomorrow and double his tip, or he’ll split his lottery winnings. It’s no spoiler to reveal that Charlie wins $4 million and splits it with Yvonne, which garners a lot of media attention for them both and scorn from Charlie’s greedy wife, Muriel (Rosie Perez). Things get even more complicated when Charlie and Yvonne begin to fall for one another.
It Could Happen to You’s is a deliberately old-fashioned romance, populated mostly by working-class people who are true to their word. Even when Charlie and Yvonne strike it rich, they don’t forget their blue-collar roots, which is why they fall in love. Cage does his best Jimmy Stewart impression, while Fonda shows all the charisma and appeal that should’ve made her a bigger star. It’s Perez, though, who steals the show in every scene she’s in as Craig’s firecracker wife. You want to hate Muriel, but Perez’s manic energy makes it really hard to.
It Could Happen to You is streaming on Hulu.
‘The Personal History of David Copperfield’ (2020)
Does the world need another Charles Dickens adaptation? Lots of people would answer “no,” but I say, bring them on! One of the best is The Personal History of David Copperfield, a spirited and funny adaptation of the author’s celebrated 1850 novel, David Copperfield.
Dev Patel stars as the title character, a poor but enterprising English lad who gradually rises through London society. After enduring some hardships as a child, including a traumatizing stint at a factory that’s one of Dickens’ literary trademarks, David matures into a young adult and becomes a lawyer-in-training while living in London. But his poor past comes back to haunt him, and his present fortunes — not to mention a potential future with the beautiful Dora (Morfydd Clark) — could be in jeopardy.
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What makes The Personal History of David Copperfield different from most other adaptations is that it never once feels stuffy or, God forbid, “respectful.” While more or less faithful to Dickens’ original text, the movie changes things up for the better, giving the story a liveliness that makes it easy to watch. Credit cowriter and director Armando Iannucci, who brings his gift of wordplay, which made his cutting-edge shows The Thick of It and Veep so addictive to watch, to Dickens’ very Victorian story. Among the large and impressive cast, Patel stands out as a Dickens hero you envy and root for, even though all the odds are stacked against him.
The Personal History of David Copperfield is streaming on Hulu.
