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Tracey Caudle,
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Richard Curtis,
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: Universal Studios
: Foreign, Romantic Comedy, UK
: 135 min.
: English, Spanish, French
: English, Spanish, French
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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
Special Features:
- Commentary with Actors Hugh Grant, Bill Nighy, Thomas Sangster and Director Richard Curtis
- Deleted Scenes with introductions by Richard Curtis
- The Music of Love Actually with introductions by Richard Curtis
- Music Video
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| Stunning
by dadohead
February 10, 2005 - 7:13 PM PST
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| I don't normally do reviews, but...wow! I don't think this film could have been more stilted: I've seen early silents with subtler acting. EVERYTHING is telegraphed to the audience, sometimes in triplicate, and it's hard to know if this stellar group of actors were given over to their worst impulses en masse, or if the director demanded these performances. In any event, the sum total of the wretched and preposterously arch dialog, inane plot(s), bad direction, and ham-fisted editing total something that is truly remarkable in it's badness (but, unfortunately not good bad, like say, "Showgirls"). I wanted to see it because I didn't believe it could be all that bad. I was wrong: it was worse. A colossal waste of time. |
| Crap Actually
by JValladares1
August 28, 2004 - 11:41 AM PDT
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| I am compelled by my hatred for this film to review it. If you are looking for romance, look elsewhere. This movie does not tell the story of more than a dozen people with new romances as much as it merely shows you their big scenes. There can be no interest in these relationships because we never get a chance to become interested in the characters. It was like a highlights reel of romantic highpoints from other films, and it suffers from the "wouldn't it be cool" syndrome where things that wouldn't happen certianly will for the cheap emotional response. There are many impressive actors in this film, none of their skills utilized. The only redeeming qualities to this film were two songs in the soundtrack: The Beach Boys' God only Knows and Otis Redding's White Christmas, and even those were drowned in a sea of Brit pop sess. To be fair, I am not a fan of light modern romance films but regardless I assure you there is nothing to see here, not an ounce of "so bad it's good" either. Makes Sleepless in Seattle look like Dark Passage. You've been warned. |
| Crap Actually
by Krow
June 23, 2004 - 2:38 PM PDT
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| If all the cows in Vermont were taken hostage, then milked feverishly for a year you might be able to make enough cheese to equal this annoying movie. Hardly a single cliché` was left unsaid, hardly a single plot line was left unused, hardly a single heart string was left untugged. An excellent cast was thrown to the dogs, victims of a pedestrian script and a flurry of forced cameos. Left to their own devices they mugged and struggled on bravely. I'm sure more than a few of them had serious talks with their agents post-production. All that seemed genuine were the looks of embarrassment. At times it was just so plain awful that I began to think it was a parody. Cruelly that fleeting hope was dashed time and again as the banal score and pallid acting crammed its way onto the screen like some home movie gone terribly wrong. I remember the reviews... "by the end the audience stood and cheered". Now I know why... it was finally over. |
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