For the next 35 years, Gary got up at 3:30 in the morning, went down the one hill in Aberdeen, Wash.

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On a whim, I went down the backside of the hill.

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Cardiff-born Chris Monger, who directed Hugh Grant in The Englishman Who Went up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain, has written the script and will direct the film.

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He went on to star in films such as Sense and Sensibility, Nine Months and The Englishman who went up a hill and came down a mountain.

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