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Love Actually (Widescreen) (Dual-layered DVD)
- Starring: Alan Rickman, Bill Nighy, Colin Firth
- Director: Richard Curtis
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All of London is in love -- or longing to be -- in Four Weddings and a Funeral writer Richard Curtis' first directorial effort. Billed as "the ultimate romantic comedy," Love Actually involves more than a dozen main characters, each weaving his or her way into another's heart over the course of one particularly eventful Christmas. The seemingly perfect wedding of Juliet (Keira Knightley) and Peter (Chiwetel Ejiofor) brings many of the principals together, including heartsick best man Mark (Andrew Lincoln), who harbors a very unrequited crush on Juliet. There's also recent widower Daniel (Liam Neeson), trying to help his lonely stepson Sam (Thomas Sangster) express his true feelings to a classmate. Across town, devoted working mother Karen (Emma Thompson) tries to rekindle the passion of her husband, Harry (Alan Rickman), who secretly pines for a young colleague of his. In the same office, the lonely Sarah (Laura Linney) not-so-secretly pines for a man just a few desks away (Rodrigo Santoro), who returns her affections but may not be able to dissuade her neuroses. Providing the unofficial soundtrack for all of the couples is an aging rocker (Bill Nighy) who just wants to cash in and get laid -- but even he might find a meaningful relationship in the most unlikely of places. A working print of Love Actually premiered at the 2003 Toronto International Film Festival. Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide
Features
- Genre: Comedy Drama
- Category: Ensemble Film, Holiday Film, Romantic Comedy
- Theme: Fathers and Sons, Heads of State, Infidelity, Intersecting Lives, Looking For Love, Unrequited Love, Workplace Romance
- Release Date: April 27, 2004
- Rating: R (Restricted)Rating Opens in New Window - Adult Humor, Adult Situations, Not For Children, Nudity, Profanity, Sexual Situations
- Studio: Universal Studios
- Lead Actors: Alan Rickman, Bill Nighy, Colin Firth, Emma Thompson, Hugh Grant
- Supporting Actors: Ines Boughanmi, Helen Murton, Frank Moorey, Edward Hardwicke, Clare Bennett, Ciaran O'Driscoll, Catia Duarte, Carol Carey, Bill Moody, Amanda Garwood, Adrian Preater, Tim Hatwell, Terry Reece, Sarah McDougall, Ruby Turner, Peter Marinker, Patrick Delaney, Lyndon David Hall, Katherine Poulton, Junior Simpson
- Director: Richard Curtis
- Picture Format: Widescreen
- Run Time: 2 hr 15 min
- Language: English, French, Spanish
- Subtitle Language: English, French, Spanish
- Format: DVD
Awards
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Nominations: Golden Globe Awards (1)
Nominee: Golden Globe Awards Best Screenplay 2003, Richard Curtis
Additional Information
- DPCI: 058-14-0761
- ASIN: B002IE8ZC6
- Catalog #: 11335232
- Item can not be gift wrapped.
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- Estimated Ship Weight: 0.15 pound.
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It isn't often that one gets to see a feature cobbled together from a dozen or so rejected script ideas, but that's exactly what prolific British romantic comedy writer Richard Curtis seems to have done with his first directorial effort. Tackling the venerable genre of ensemble comedy with an approach that's more Dr. Frankenstein than Robert Altman, Love Actually strives to encompass the romantic longings of a gaggle of characters both young and old, straight and rampantly straight, wealthy and merely middle-class. The film's prologue narration attempts to establish the overriding importance of love in a post-9/11 world, but many of the characters in Love Actually don't exactly support such a lofty theme; there's a crude bloke dying to get laid (Kris Marshall); an over-the-hill rocker just looking to get paid (Bill Nighy); and at least three randy employers (Colin Firth, Alan Rickman, and improbable Prime Minister Hugh Grant) longing to hook up with workplace subordinates. The film is packed with Curtis' trademark bon mots, stammering heroes, and wry melancholy, to be sure, but the cumulative aesthetic can best be described as "cute" -- certainly not the first word that popped to mind with the writer's more acerbic Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, or Bridget Jones's Diary. Any of Love Actually's plotlines -- well, at least six of them -- might have made a decent film on its own, but taken together, they buckle under the weight of the film's "all you need is love" mantra. Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide
