Love Actually

Theatrical Release Date: 2003 11 07 (USA - Limited) / 2003 11 14 (USA)

UPC: 025192329326

Studio: Universal Studios

MPAA Rating: R   Contains:[Nudity, Adult Situations, Not For Children, Adult Humor, Profanity, Sexual Situations]

Summary: 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, Rovi

Category: Comedy Drama

Awards: Best Picture - Musical or Comedy – null Best Screenplay – null Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion – Los Angeles Film Critics Association Best Supporting Actor – Los Angeles Film Critics Association Best Screenplay – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Picture - Musical or Comedy – Hollywood Foreign Press Association

Features: ccFeature 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: Kelly Clarkson "The Trouble With Love Is"

Love Actually

Format: Digital Video Disc (DVD)

Release Date: 04/27/2004

Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Cinemascope

Audio: DDS Dolby Digital Surround, DD5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1

Runtime: 135 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English,French,Spanish

Subtitles: English,French,Spanish

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Side #1 --
1. Chapter 1 [9:45]
2. Chapter 2 [5:22]
3. Chapter 3 [7:33]
4. Chapter 4 [7:04]
5. Chapter 5 [6:54]
6. Chapter 6 [7:38]
7. Chapter 7 [7:02]
8. Chapter 8 [6:59]
9. Chapter 9 [8:03]
10. Chapter 10 [3:01]
11. Chapter 11 [1:41]
12. Chapter 12 [4:44]
13. Chapter 13 [7:37]
14. Chapter 14 [4:27]
15. Chapter 15 [:43]
16. Chapter 16 [:02]
17. Chapter 17 [2:17]
18. Chapter 18 [5:39]
19. Chapter 19 [8:16]
20. Chapter 20 [6:38]

Michael Hastings

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. ~ Michael Hastings, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Elisha Cuthbert  Actor 
Tony Lucken  Actor 
Raul Atalaia  Actor 
Billy Campbell  Actor 
Georgia Flint  Actor 
Sarah Holland  Actor 
Meredith Ostrom  Actor 
Paul Slack  Actor 
William Wadham  Actor 
Edward Hardwicke  Actor 
Elizabeth Margoni  Actor 
Emma Buckley  Actor 
Shaughan Seymour  Actor 
Katharine Bailey  Actor 
Keir Charles  Actor 
Jill Freud  Actor 
Wyllie Longmore  Actor 
Joanna Thaw  Actor 
Richard Wills-Cotton  Actor 
Katherine Poulton  Actor 
Gillian Barge  Actor 
Colin Coull  Actor 
John Sharian  Actor 
Ines Boughanmi  Actor 
Helder Costa  Actor 
Kate Glover  Actor 
Sarah McDougall  Actor 
Laura Rees  Actor 
Ruby Turner  Actor 
Yuk Sim Yau  Actor 
Brian Bovell  Actor 
Margery Mason  Actor 
Michael Parkinson  Actor 
Nicola McRoy  Actor 
Ant McPartlin  Actor 
Julia Davis  Actor 
Marcus Brigstocke  Actor 
Catia Duarte  Actor 
Matt Harvey  Actor 
Helen Murton  Actor 
Doraly Rosen  Actor 
Igor Urdenko  Actor 
Michael Fitzgerald  Actor 
Amanda Garwood  Actor 
Rory MacGregor  Actor 
Terry Reece  Actor 
The Big Blue  Actor 
Jont Wittingtom  Actor 
January Jones  Actor 
Adam Godley  Actor 
Nina Sosanya  Actor 
Joanna Bacon  Actor 
Carol Carey  Actor 
Dave Fisher  Actor 
Tim Hatwell  Actor 
Ciaran O'Driscoll  Actor 
Junior Simpson  Actor 
Carla Vasconcelos  Actor 
Peter Marinker  Actor 
Arturo Venegas  Actor 
Gemma Aston  Actor 
Ivana Milicevic  Actor 
Declan Donnelly  Actor 
Tiffany Boysell  Actor 
Patrick Delaney  Actor 
Lyndon David Hall  Actor 
Vicki Murdoch  Actor 
Kate Bowes Renna  Actor 
Nat Udom  Actor 
Richard Hawley  Actor 
Sheila Allen  Actor 
Paul Heasman  Actor 
Sarah Atkinson  Actor 
Margus Tuuling  Actor 
Adrian Preater  Actor 
Clare Bennett  Actor 
Glenn Conroy  Actor 
Dan Fredenburgh  Actor 
Stewart Howson  Actor 
Lulu Popplewell  Actor 
Nancy Sorrell  Actor 
Jo Whiley  Actor 
Bill Moody  Actor 
Caroline John  Actor 
Jamie Edgell  Actor 
Frank Moorey  Actor 
Wes Butters  Actor 
Alan Barnes  Actor 
Megan Owen  Actor 
Tim Bevan  Producer 
Richard Curtis  Director 
Richard Curtis  Executive Producer 
Richard Curtis  Screenwriter 
Eric Fellner  Producer 
Duncan Kenworthy  Producer 
Craig Armstrong  Composer (Music Score) 
Sarah-Jane Wright  Executive Producer 
Alan Rickman  Actor 
Bill Nighy  Actor 
Colin Firth  Actor 
Emma Thompson  Actor 
Hugh Grant  Actor 
Laura Linney  Actor 
Liam Neeson  Actor 
Martine McCutcheon  Actor 
Keira Knightley  Actor 
Rowan Atkinson  Actor 
Andrew Lincoln  Actor 
Billy Bob Thornton  Actor 
Joanna Page  Actor 
Kris Marshall  Actor 
Lucia Moniz  Actor 
Martin Freeman  Actor 
Thomas Sangster  Actor 
Heike Makatsch  Actor 
Chiwetel Ejiofor  Actor 
Rodrigo Santoro  Actor 
Claudia Schiffer  Actor 
Gregor Fisher  Actor 
Olivia Olson  Actor 
Abdul Salis  Actor 
Shannon Elizabeth  Actor 
Denise Richards  Actor 
Sienna Guillory  Actor 

Country: UK