"The Girl in the Cafe"

I rewatched this movie last night and absolutely loved it all over again.  Bill Nighy and Kelly McDonald are two of my favorite actors, so to see them paired up is absolutely delightful.  

The Girl in the Cafe was a 2005 British made-for-television drama which received seven nominations at the 58th Primetime Emmy Awards, where it won Outstanding Made for Television Movie, Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special for Curtis, and Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for Macdonald.

The plot doesn't sound exciting -

Lawrence (Bill Nighy), a civil servant working for the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Ken Stott), falls in love with Gina (Kelly Macdonald), a young woman he meets by chance in a London café. Lawrence takes Gina to a G8 summit in Reykjavík, Iceland, where she confronts the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (Corin Redgrave) over the issue of third world debt and poverty in Africa, much to Lawrence's embarrassment and the anger of his employers. However, he realises that she is right and tries to help persuade the Chancellor and others at the summit to do something about the issues concerned.

- and it's not.  But the acting is superb.  Tonight I'm planning to watch the director's cut, with a voiceover by the director and the writer.

I was also intrigued by the musical background during the opening and closing credits.  Here it is: