Love Actually [DVD]

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Harry is the managing director of a design agency. Mia is his secretary. Harry is happily married to Karen, a stay-at-home mother. They have two children, Bernard and Daisy. Mia behaves in an overtly sexual way with him at the office and asks him for a Christmas present. At the company Christmas party held at Mark's gallery, they dance closely. It is scenes such as Grant’s infamous boogie that render the film utterly ridiculous – and therefore endlessly rewatchable. The idea that “David” is “running the country” or engaging with literally any political issue while he flirts with Maggie Thatcher’s portrait, gets distracted from his job by his sexy secretary, feels “cool” after being elected to office and sings carols on Wandsworth doorsteps is laughable. Well, spoiler alert: that is the entire point. The clue’s in the “com”. We are not watching a film about the British constitution. We are watching a film about love. Actually. Hugh Grant as the Prime Minister in Love Actually (2003) (Photo: Love Actually/YouTube)

Join Writer/Director Richard Curtis along the with cast and crew as they reflect on the making of the film and its legacy 20 years later. Unsuccessfully attempting to woo various English women, including Mia and Nancy, Juliet and Peter's wedding caterer, Colin Frissell informs his friend Tony that he plans to go to America, convinced that his Britishness will be an asset. Landing in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Colin meets Stacey, Jeannie, and Carol-Anne, three stunningly attractive women who instantly fall for his Estuary English accent, inviting him to stay at their home, where they are joined by their roommate Harriet. Hugh Grant Says 'Love Actually' Dance Scene Was "Excruciating" And Didn't Want To Do It". Deadline. 27 November 2022 . Retrieved 26 December 2022.Most of the film was made on location in London, including Trafalgar Square, the central court of Somerset House in the Strand, Grosvenor Chapel on South Audley Street near Hyde Park, St Paul's Church, Clapham, the Millennium Bridge, Selfridges department store on Oxford Street, Lambeth Bridge, the Tate Modern in the former Bankside Power Station, Canary Wharf, Marble Arch, St. Luke's Mews off All Saint's Road in Notting Hill, Chelsea Bridge, the OXO Tower, London City Hall, Poplar Road in Herne Hill, Elliott School in Pullman Gardens, Putney, Heathrow Airport and the Marseille Airport. Scenes set in 10 Downing Street were filmed at Shepperton Studios. [20] Standing up to the US President [ edit ] And unlike most romcoms, which tend to follow one relationship from meetcute to happily ever after, here we have multiple storylines, which present different romantic challenges for all the different characters. There is the silliness of the Prime Minister and his crush, but there is also, to name a few, Daniel (Liam Neeson) losing his wife, Joanna, and helping his son with his own romantic conquest; Sarah (Laura Linney) caring for her mentally ill brother; Jamie (Colin Firth) being cheated on; Mark (Andrew Lincoln) being in love with his best mate’s wife (Keira Knightley); Harry and Karen’s marriage and his affair with his much younger assistant. Slightly skimmed over they may be, but they do touch on some of life’s most painful situations and realities; Curtis, problematic as he is, leaves certain challenges untouched – but to get an affair, a workplace romance, unrequited love, a bereavement, a language barrier and friendship all in one film isn’t bad going. Sylvester, Rachel (23 May 2006). "Iraq has tested Mr Blair's interventionism to destruction". The Daily Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 8 December 2008 . Retrieved 16 August 2011. Weber, Lindsey (19 March 2017). "Hated It, Actually: What Critics Thought of Love Actually in 2003". Vulture. New York Media, LLC . Retrieved 12 December 2016. A made-for-television short film sequel, Red Nose Day Actually, aired in two different versions on BBC One and NBC in 2017.

Salaam-e-Ishq. Could I be more excited? Honestly?". Musings of the Obsessive Kind. dangermousie . Retrieved 16 December 2013. Juliet and Peter's wedding is videotaped by the best man, Mark, where a surprise band plays the Beatles' " All You Need Is Love" as they walk out of the church. Although the couple believe Mark dislikes Juliet, he is actually in love with her. When he evades her requests to see the video he shot at the wedding, she shows up at his flat. Juliet insists she wants them to be friends, but when she views the wedding video Mark recorded, she sees many extreme close-ups of herself and few of Peter's face. She realises Mark's true feelings towards her. After an uncomfortable silence, Mark blurts out that he acts cold out of "self-preservation". New Year Trees (Russian: Yolki), also known as Six Degrees of Celebration, 2010 comedy film that launched a successful movie franchise spanning six sequels Curtis cast his daughter Scarlett in the film; she was given the choice of being an angel or a lobster, and played the part of Lobster number 2 in the nativity play, on the condition that she meet Keira Knightley. [17]

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Kirkup, James (9 August 2013). "David Cameron's Love Actually moment as he defends Britain against 'small island' jibe". The Daily Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 10 January 2022 . Retrieved 8 September 2013. The best Christmas movies on Netflix UK". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 13 December 2017 . Retrieved 24 February 2019. Lambo, Stacy. "The Love Actually Cast Reveal 10 Things You Didn't Know About The Film". VH1 . Retrieved 6 March 2017.