Hope Springs is a 2003 romantic comedy film written and directed by Mark Herman, based on the novel New Cardiff by Charles Webb.

English artist Colin is dumped by his childhood love and fiancée Vera, so he travels to a place with the most positive name he can find.

He arrives in Hope, a quiet town in Vermont in autumn, and showing clear signs of emotional distress, checks into an inn.

When Joanie, the quirky and outlandish hotel manager, sees his state she calls over her friend Mandy, a nursing home attendant, to talk with him and take his mind off his troubles.

Extremely self-confident and oblivious to anyone else's ideas or feelings, she denies that Colin is no longer interested and relentlessly pursues him, while finding out about him and Mandy.

The former couple's twenty years together adds to Vera's leverage, but Colin tells her that, "In one minute...short span of time...you not only became unimportant as an aim in life, but also the very thing I need to flee from in order to find happiness."