Love Actually
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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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| title: |
Love Actually |
| theatricalDate: |
14-11-2003 |
| stars: |
Hugh Grant
Liam Neeson |
| purchase date: |
07-06-2006 |
| publisher: |
Universal Studios |
| published: |
27-04-2004 |
| price: |
$12.98 |
| net Rating: |
4 |
| MPAA Rating: |
R |
| minutes: |
135 |
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| genre: |
Romance
Comedy
Hugh Grant |
| fullTitle: |
Love Actually (Full Screen Edition) |
| features: |
Closed-captioned
Color
Dolby
Dubbed
Full Screen
Subtitled
NTSC |
| currentValue: |
$6.95 |
| created: |
171439912.515274 |
| country: |
us |
| aspect: |
DVD |
| asin: |
B0001GL3K4
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