Love Actually

Alan Rickman Director: Richard Curtis Richard Curtis

Overview

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.

Product Details

Release Date:	06/02/2020
UPC:	0191329142257
Original Release:	2003
Rating:	R
Source:	Universal Studios
Time:	2:15:00

Special Features

Over 30 minutes of deleted scenes The music of Love Actually The storytellers Kelly Clarkson "The Trouble With Love Is" music video Billy Mack "Christmas is All Around" music video Feature commentary with director Richard Curtis and actors Hugh Grant, Bill Nighy and Thomas Sangster 1080p High Definition 480i/p Standard Definition English SDH subtitles

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Alan Rickman	Harry
Bill Nighy	Billy Mack
Colin Firth	Jamie
Emma Thompson	Karen
Hugh Grant	The Prime Minister
Laura Linney	Sarah
Liam Neeson	Daniel
Martine McCutcheon	Natalie
Keira Knightley	Juliet
Rowan Atkinson	Rufus
Andrew Lincoln	Mark
Billy Bob Thornton	President of the United States of America
Joanna Page	Just Judy
Kris Marshall	Colin Frissell
Lucia Moniz	Aurelia
Martin Freeman	John
Thomas Sangster	Sam
Heike Makatsch	Mia
Chiwetel Ejiofor	Peter
Rodrigo Santoro	Karl
Claudia Schiffer	Carol
Gregor Fisher	Joe
Olivia Olson	Joanna Anderson
Abdul Salis	Tony
Shannon Elizabeth	Harriet, The Sexy One
Denise Richards	Carla, The Real Friendly One
Sienna Guillory	Jamie's girlfriend
January Jones	Jeannie, American Angel
Elisha Cuthbert	Carol-Anne, American Goddess
Ivana Milicevic	Stacey, American Dreamgirl
Sheila Allen	Jamie's Mum
Gemma Aston	Family Mourner
Raul Atalaia	Restaurant Proprietor
Sarah Atkinson	Billy's Video Vixen
Joanna Bacon	Natalie's Mum
Katharine Bailey	Harris Street Little Girl
Gillian Barge	Cabinet Minister
Alan Barnes	Movie Director
Clare Bennett	Billy's Video Vixen
Ines Boughanmi	Language Student
Brian Bovell	Radio Watford DJ
Tiffany Boysell	Her Friend
Marcus Brigstocke	Mikey, DJ Interviewer
Emma Buckley	Jamie's Sister
Wes Butters	Radio 1 Chart Show DJ
Billy Campbell	Natalie's Octopus Brother, Keith
Carol Carey	Natalie's Replacement
Keir Charles	Press Conference Reporter
Glenn Conroy	Barman
Helder Costa	Mr. Barros
Colin Coull	PM's Bodyguard, Gavin
Julia Davis	Nancy The Caterer
Patrick Delaney	Tommy, Carol's Son
Declan Donnelly	Dec
Catia Duarte	Language Student
Jamie Edgell	Airport Guard
Dave Fisher	Airport Guard
Michael Fitzgerald	Michael, Sarah's Brother
Georgia Flint	Her Friend
Dan Fredenburgh	Jamie's Bad Brother
Jill Freud	Pat The Housekeeper
Amanda Garwood	Backing-Singer Teacher
Kate Glover	Cabinet Minister
Adam Godley	Mr. Trench
Lyndon David Hall	The Wedding Singer
Edward Hardwicke	Sam's Grandfather
Matt Harvey	Family Mourner
Tim Hatwell	Vicar
Richard Hawley	Alex, Deputy Prime Minister
William Wadham	Bernie, Karen's Son
Arturo Venegas	Mr. Anderson
Stewart Howson	Airport Gate Man
Caroline John	Sam's Grandmother
Wyllie Longmore	Jeremy
Tony Lucken	Airport Guard
Rory MacGregor	Engineer
Elizabeth Margoni	Eleonore
Peter Marinker	US Expert
Margery Mason	Harris Street Old Lady
Sarah McDougall	Receptionist
Ant McPartlin	Ant
Nicola McRoy	Cabinet Minister
Bill Moody	Natalie's Dad
Frank Moorey	Terence, Who's In Charge
Ruby Turner	Mrs. Jean Anderson
Helen Murton	Funeral Priest
Big Blue	Church Musicians
Nancy Sorrell	Greta
Megan Owen	PM's Secretary
Michael Parkinson	Parky
Lulu Popplewell	Daisy, Her Daughter
Katherine Poulton	Billy's Video Vixen
Nina Sosanya	Annie
Terry Reece	PM's Chauffeur, Terry
Carla Vasconcelos	Sophia Barros
Kate Bowes Renna	Cabinet Minister
Richard Wills-Cotton	Cabinet Minister
Paul Slack	John's Brother
Margus Tuuling	Billy's Video Vixen
Metro Voices	Singer
Cecilia Weston	Conductor

Technical Credits

Richard Curtis

Richard Curtis	Director,Executive Producer,Screenwriter
Nick Angel	Musical Direction/Supervision
Craig Armstrong	Score Composer
Shaheen Baig	Casting
Raphaël Benoliel	Production Manager
Kate Benton	Makeup
Tim Bevan	Producer
Tracey Caudle	Stunts
Liza Chasin	Co-producer
Martin Chitty	Costumes/Costume Designer
Jim Clay	Production Designer,Set Decoration/Design
Richard Conway	Special Effects Supervisor
Sam Conway	Special Effects
Stephanie Corsalini	Casting
Academy Costume	Costumes/Costume Designer
Michael Coulter	Cinematographer,Co-producer
Talila Craig	Stunts
Eric Fellner	Producer
Geoff Foster	Sound Mixer
Debra Hayward	Co-producer
Alexander Hill	Musical Direction/Supervision
Martin Hume	Camera Operator
Camilla-Valentine Isola	Casting
Graham Johnston	Makeup
Joanna Johnston	Costumes/Costume Designer
Gilles Kenny	Asst. Director
Duncan Kenworthy	Producer
Susan Lawrence	Asst. Director
Jonathan Lunn	Choreography
Lorna McGowan	Makeup
Rod McLean	Art Director
Nick Moore	Editor
Christopher Newman	Asst. Director
Leigh Nicol	Costumes/Costume Designer
John Palmer	Camera Operator
Tori Parry	Production Manager
Jeffrey Pollack	Consultant/advisor
Carlo Manzi Rentals	Costumes/Costume Designer
Mary Selway	Casting
Marti Sharron	Songwriter
Caroline Smith	Set Decoration/Design
Avril Soards	Stunts
David A. Stephenson	Sound Mixer
Peter Taylor	Camera Operator
Justin Warburton-Brown	Art Director
Nick Watson	Consultant/advisor
Tim Webber	Special Effects Supervisor
Fiona Weir	Casting
Mark White	Special Effects
Sarah-Jane Wright	Executive Producer

Editorial Reviews

It's not easy to craft romantic comedies with ensemble casts, and few filmmakers have done so as well as screenwriter Richard Curtis, whose credits include Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, and Bridget Jones's Diary. For Love Actually, his directorial debut, he has composed a comedy of symphonic proportions, a surprisingly sprightly romp that boasts a dizzying array of characters connected in unpredictable ways. The story is set in London during Christmas, as the newly elected prime minister (Hugh Grant) takes office and immediately falls for a working-class staffer (Martine McCutcheon). Meanwhile, his middle-aged sister (Emma Thompson) is beginning to worry that her husband (Alan Rickman) might succumb to the blandishments of a sexually aggressive coworker, while elsewhere in the office Laura Linney pines for hunky Rodrigo Santoro. On other fronts, a recently minted widower (Liam Neeson) struggles to raise his adolescent stepson, and Colin Firth rebounds from heartbreak by falling for his non-English-speaking assistant. Stringing the whole thing together is the film's best story line, which involves an aging, dissipated rocker (Bill Nighy) who records a corny Christmas song that becomes an unexpected holiday hit. As one expects with Curtis, the script is fairly literate and refreshingly free of tacky humor. Which is not to say that Love Actually doesn't have its ribald moments; in fact, it's probably the lustiest picture Curtis has done to date. Still the characters are generally likable and the movie brims with wonderful bits: Rowan Atkinson, for instance, contributes a quietly hysterical turn as a prissy department-store clerk. In the vast rough of romantic comedies, Love Actually is a genuinely witty and enchanting diamond.

Barnes & Noble - Ed Hulse

It isn't often that one gets to see a feature cobbled together from a dozen or so rejected script ideas, but that's exactly what prolific British romantic comedy writer Richard Curtis seems to have done with his first directorial effort. Tackling the venerable genre of ensemble comedy with an approach that's more Dr. Frankenstein than Robert Altman, Love Actually strives to encompass the romantic longings of a gaggle of characters both young and old, straight and rampantly straight, wealthy and merely middle-class. The film's prologue narration attempts to establish the overriding importance of love in a post-9/11 world, but many of the characters in Love Actually don't exactly support such a lofty theme; there's a crude bloke dying to get laid (Kris Marshall); an over-the-hill rocker just looking to get paid (Bill Nighy); and at least three randy employers (Colin Firth, Alan Rickman, and improbable Prime Minister Hugh Grant) longing to hook up with workplace subordinates. The film is packed with Curtis' trademark bon mots, stammering heroes, and wry melancholy, to be sure, but the cumulative aesthetic can best be described as "cute" -- certainly not the first word that popped to mind with the writer's more acerbic Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, or Bridget Jones's Diary. Any of Love Actually's plotlines -- well, at least six of them -- might have made a decent film on its own, but taken together, they buckle under the weight of the film's "all you need is love" mantra.

All Movie Guide - Michael Hastings

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