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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780783284309
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0783284306
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal Studios
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 27, 2004
Running Time: 135 minutes
Sales Rank: 404
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: November 14, 2003
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Description:
'Get ready for fun!' (Leah Rozen, People) with the 'feel good movie of the year!' (Clay Smith, Access Hollywood) Love Actually is the ultimate romantic comedy from the makers of Bridget Jones's Diary and Notting Hill. Funny, irresistible and heartwarming, an all-star cast (Hugh Grant, Liam Neeson, Colin Firth and Emma Thompson, to name a few!) will take you on a breathtaking tour of love's delightful twists and turns. Fall under the spell of Love Actually and share the laughs and charm again and again.
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With no fewer than eight couples vying for our attention, Love Actually is like the Boston Marathon of romantic comedies, and everybody wins. Having mastered the genre as the writer of Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, and Bridget Jones's Diary, it appears that first-time director Richard Curtis is just like his screenplays: He just wants to be loved, and he'll go to absurdly appealing lengths to win our affection. With Love Actually, Curtis orchestrates a minor miracle of romantic choreography, guiding a brilliant cast of stars and newcomers as they careen toward love and holiday cheer in London, among them the Prime Minister (Hugh Grant) who's smitten with his caterer; a widower (Liam Neeson) whose young son nurses the ultimate schoolboy crush; a writer (Colin Firth) who falls for his Portuguese housekeeper; a devoted wife and mother (Emma Thompson) coping with her potentially unfaithful husband (Alan Rickman); and a lovelorn American (Laura Linney) who's desperately attracted to a colleague. There's more--too much more--as Curtis wraps his Christmas gift with enough happy endings to sweeten a dozen other movies. That he pulls it off so entertainingly is undeniably impressive; that he does it so shamelessly suggests that his writing fares better with other, less ingratiating directors. --Jeff Shannon
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Rating:  - One Of My Top 10 Greatest Movies Of All Time
A love story from all different angles and all perfectly intertwined with humor to top it all off. A stacked cast full of great British actors, Love Actually is a real life (and rather adult, I don't think you would want your children watching this), creatively written Christmas movie. They cover almost every romantic and heart-breaking situation that can occur in an average persons life (well almost average I suppose). From a troubles in a long marriage to happiness in a brand new one. You have a washed up rock star who realizes in all his efforts to return to the lime light full of easy women and glamorous parties that all he really wants is the company of a long time friend for Christmas. You have bosses falling for the help, and two people falling in love even if they don't know what the other is saying due to a language barrier. My favorite story in the movie is the recently widowed father who spends the movie helping his son with his situation, aka the "total agony of being in love".
The story begins at the Heathrow Airport arrivals gate where `Love is everywhere" as couples and friends alike great each other with happiness and affection. The first character you are introduced to is the washed up rock star recording the most awful Christmas record of the season (although very hilarious, I must warn you he in particular will drop the f word at least once a line). Even though each character has its individual story, the story tends to revolve around the new prime minister (and his ... Read More
Rating: - It's all about love
This is one of the few chick-flicks I will watch (over and over again). I find it endearing, sad, heart braking, happy, funny, and a little bit confusing. I am not a huge fan of Hugh Grant, but I love him as the prime minister, looking up at the picture of Margaret Thatcher, painfully in love and utter something like this:
"I bet you didn't have problems like these. Of course you did, you saucy minx!"
And who doesn't like his dancing in the hallways of Number 10, Downing Street?
There is so much to love in this film, although it makes me cry, it also makes me feel so good inside. Definitely one of my favourite films of all time.
Rating:  - Good little film
The start and end of the film takes place at Heathrow, where a montage of people being greeted by their loved ones is lent poignancy by the opening narration of Hugh Grant stating that all the known messages left by the people who died on the 9/11 airplanes were messages of love and not hate, and the closing song of the Beach Boys' God Only Knows. Also effective is the use of cameos in the film, most notably as dream babes such as Claudia Schiffer, Denise Richards, and Shannon Elizabeth make brief appearances in the airport as love interests for some of the diverse characters, who we see now have known each other in casual ways, each with different takes on love.
Is Love Actually a film that will challenge you the way 2001: A Space Odyssey does? No. But it is a film whose well-written and acted characters and charm will stick in your mind long after their counterparts from lesser, schmaltzier films in its genre have faded.
Rating: - This movie is love...
There is a lot going on in `Love Actually'; a whole lot. That is a good thing, for that means that there is more to love, and love I do, for `Love Actually' is kind of like the ultimate romantic comedy. The film revolves around eight couples (not always in the most conventional sense) as they strive for love during the holiday season.
To get into every aspect of this film individually would take too much time and space, plus it would take away from the whole surprise and joyous mystery of the film, but I will touch try and outline the plot a little.
At the center of the film there is the young prime minister who has become smitten with his caterer. His sister is having trouble in her marriage, for her husband has fallen prey to the young office temptress. Her best friend Daniel is dealing with the death of his wife and raising her son (his stepson) Sam, not to mention finding some solace. Then there is Jamie, who is going through a rough patch in his love life when he catches his girlfriend in the arms of another man. Young lovers Juliet and Peter are trying to get their marriage off to a good start, and Sarah is trying to find love while juggling other responsibilities. Add to this a washed up rockstar on the verge of a comeback and workmates (working in very compromising positions) and a young Brit who dreams of American girls and you have, in a nutshell, `Love Actually'.
You'd think that this may be a little much, but it works, really, really well. ... Read More
Rating: - It actually is just about love.
Love Actually is bookends with scenes of people reuniting in airports. The point of these scnes and ultimately the film is that love is all around us. I think the director is making a direct statement of hope and optimism in light of the tragedies of September 11th, which had just recently happened. I suppose all the most reason to place these scenes in airports. The movie is, of course, not about airports. The movies is a collection of stories all about people falling in, falling out or overall just trying to deal with love. There is a widower trying to bond with his step son. A man in love with his best friend's wife. A woman dealing with her husband's potential infidelities. And so on and so forth. Some stories feel less contrived than others, but all in all this film is everything one would want a romantic comedy to me. It isn't to cliche, sweet, funny, heart-warming and a little sad. Even if you don't like every story in the film, one or two will probably tug at you. And anyone that doesn't get a little teary eyed at the wedding / All You Need Is Love scene... well there probably isn't anything wrong with you, but I really do love that scene.
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