Rating: R
Genre:
Comedy Drama
Theatrical Release: 11/07/2003(USA
Release Date: 04/12/2009
Flags: Nudity, Adult Situations, Not For Children, Adult Humor, Profanity, Sexual Situations
Distributor/Studio: Universal Studios
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
;)
