Love Actually
Director: Richard Curtis
Genre: Romantic comedy, Comedy, Romance Film, Drama, Comedy-drama, Ensemble Film, Holiday Film
Year: 2003
Country: United Kingdom, United States of America, France
Language: English Language, Portuguese Language, French Language, Italian Language
Starring: Bill Nighy, Gregor Fisher, Colin Firth, Sienna Guillory, Liam Neeson, Emma Thompson, Kris Marshall, Heike Makatsch, Martin Freeman, Joanna Page, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Andrew Lincoln, Keira Knightley, Hugh Grant, Thomas Sangster, Martine McCutcheon, Laura Linney, Rowan Atkinson, Alan Rickman, Marcus Brigstocke, Rodrigo Santoro, Shannon Elizabeth, Lúcia Moniz, Denise Richards, Elisha Cuthbert, Claudia Schiffer, Billy Bob Thornton, January Jones, Ivana Miličević, Declan Donnelly, Olivia Olson
Love Actually is a 2003 British romantic comedy film written and directed by Richard Curtis. The screenplay delves into different aspects of love as shown through ten separate stories involving a wide variety of individuals, many of whom are shown to be interlinked as their tales progress. The ensemble cast is composed predominantly of British actors.
Set in London, the film begins five weeks before Christmas and is played out in a weekly countdown until the holiday, followed by an epilogue that takes place one month later.
The film begins with a voiceover from David (Hugh Grant) commenting that whenever he gets gloomy with the state of the world he thinks about the arrivals terminal at Heathrow Airport, and the pure uncomplicated love felt as friends and families welcome their arriving loved ones. David's voiceover also relates that all the messages left by the people who died on the 9/11 planes were messages of love and not hate. The film then tells the 'love stories' of many people:
With the help of his longtime manager Joe (Gregor Fisher), aging rock and roll legend Billy Mack (Bill Nighy) records a Christmas variation of The Troggs' classic hit "Love Is All Around". Although
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