The Demon Lover

Taking Hugh for Granted

Come out from behind your couch and settle down as Oscar and Diggory discuss Hugh Grant's role in Shades of Darkness: The Demon Lover (1986), including the strange way that they don't show Hugh's face for a lot of the film but when they do - how lovely his hair is.

In 1941 in England, despite the war, for Robert Drover (played by Hugh Grant) relatively speaking all is well. He is in love with a wonderful young woman but this soon presents a problem for his mother, Kathleen (played by Dorothy Tutin). This burgeoning love leads her to reminisce about her own first love, a dashing RAF pilot who was killed in 1916. She can’t explain it, but she keeps thinking she’s seeing him everywhere. And then, one day, when visiting her London house, she is shocked to find a fresh note, signed off by her long dead lover...

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Unsure who we're on about? Hugh Grant is a British actor who is best known for starring in films like Love Actually, Notting Hill and The Undoing alongside huge stars such as Nicole Kidman and Julia Roberts. In 2022, Hugh Grant continues to make movies and has a wife and kids.