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| Love Actually | |
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 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed past | Richard Curtis |
| Written past | Richard Curtis |
| Produced by |
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| Starring |
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| Cinematography | Michael Coulter |
| Edited by | Nick Moore |
| Music past | Craig Armstrong |
| Production |
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| Distributed by | Universal Pictures (Worldwide) Mars Distribution (France)[1] |
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| Running time | 136 minutes |
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| Language | English |
| Upkeep | $twoscore–45 million[three] [iv] |
| Box office | $246.8 million[4] |
Love Really is a 2003 Christmas-themed romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Richard Curtis. It features an ensemble cast, equanimous predominantly of British actors, many of whom had worked with Curtis in previous movie and television projects. Mostly filmed on location in London, the screenplay delves into dissimilar aspects of beloved every bit shown through ten dissever stories involving a wide variety of individuals, many of whom are shown to be interlinked as the tales progress. The story begins v weeks earlier Christmas and is played out in a weekly inaugural until the holiday, followed by an epilogue that takes identify 1 month afterwards.
An international co-production between the United Kingdom, the United states of america and France,[ii] the film was released in the United states on 14 November 2003 and a week later in the United Kingdom, to generally mixed reviews. Love Really was a box-office success, grossing $246 million worldwide on a budget of $40–45 1000000. Information technology received a nomination for the Gilt Globe Laurels for Best Motion Moving picture – Musical or Comedy. Frequently shown during the Christmas flavour, the film has proved more pop with audiences than critics, and information technology has been discussed as being arguably a modernistic-mean solar day Christmas staple.[five] [6]
A made-for-television short movie sequel, Red Olfactory organ 24-hour interval Really, aired in two different versions on BBC One and NBC in 2017.
Plot [edit]
A voiceover (Hugh Grant) opens the film, commenting that whenever he gets gloomy about the state of the world he thinks of the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport, about the pure simple beloved of friends and families welcoming their loved ones. He as well points out that the messages from the 9/11 victims were messages of beloved and not hate. We then see the 'love stories' of many people evolve:
Billy Mack and Joe [edit]
With his long-time manager Joe (Gregor Fisher), stone and roll fable Billy Mack (Neb Nighy) records a Christmas version of The Troggs' 1967 song "Dearest Is All Effectually", titling information technology "Christmas Is All Effectually". Although believing the tape is terrible, Mack promotes the release in the hope it will become the Christmas number ane unmarried, which it does. He foregoes a victory party hosted by Elton John to celebrate Christmas with Joe, getting drunk and watching porn.
Juliet, Peter and Marker [edit]
Juliet (Keira Knightley) and Peter's (Chiwetel Ejiofor) wedding is videotaped by the best man, Marking (Andrew Lincoln), where a surprise band plays the Beatles' "All Yous Need Is Love" every bit 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 hymeneals, she shows up at his flat. Juliet insists she wants them to be friends, only when she views the wedding video Marking 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".
On Christmas Eve, Juliet answers the doorbell to find Mark conveying a boombox playing a Christmas ballad and large cue cards. While Peter is inside watching television, Mark tells a message of his dearest to Juliet through the cue cards. As he walks away down the street, Juliet runs after him, gives him a quick kiss and returns inside.
Jamie and Aurélia [edit]
Author Jamie (Colin Firth) is pushed by his girlfriend (Sienna Guillory) to nourish Juliet and Peter's hymeneals lone, every bit she is 'sick'. He returns before the reception to check on her, discovering she is having sex with his blood brother. Crushed, Jamie withdraws to his French cottage, where he meets Portuguese housekeeper Aurélia (Lúcia Moniz), who does not speak English. Despite not sharing a common language, they share a mutual attraction.
Jamie returns to England, realises he is in love with Aurélia and begins learning Portuguese. He returns to French republic to detect her and ends upwards walking through town with her father and sister, gathering additional people as they walk to her waitressing job. In bones, and often grammatically incorrect Portuguese, he declares his honey for her and proposes. She says yes in broken English language, as the crowd erupts in adulation.
Harry, Karen and Mia [edit]
Harry (Alan Rickman) is the managing director of a pattern agency; Mia (Heike Makatsch) is his secretary. He is happily married to Karen (Emma Thompson), a stay-at-home mother, with two children, Bernard and Daisy. Mia behaves overtly sexually with him at the office, asking him for a Christmas nowadays. At the visitor Christmas party held at Marking'due south gallery, they dance closely.
While Christmas shopping, Harry calls Mia asking what she wants for Christmas and is near defenseless by his married woman purchasing an expensive necklace in the shape of a love heart from the jewellery department because of the meticulous gift-wrapping of the salesman Rufus (Rowan Atkinson). Afterwards on, Karen finds the necklace in Harry's glaze pocket, bold information technology is for her. Opening a similarly shaped box for her under the tree on Christmas Eve, she is heartbroken to find it is a Joni Mitchell CD, realising he bought the necklace for someone else. Confronting Harry, she asks what he would do if he were her. She feels he has made a mockery of their marriage and of her.
David and Natalie [edit]
David (Hugh Grant), who is Karen's brother, is likewise the recently elected Prime Government minister of the Britain. Natalie (Martine McCutcheon) is a new inferior member of the household staff at 10 Downing Street. During a coming together with the U.Southward. President (Billy Bob Thornton), they run across Natalie and the president makes some inappropriate comments to David about her. Subsequently, David walks in on Natalie serving tea and biscuits to the President, and it appears that something untoward is happening. Natalie seems embarrassed, and the president has a sly grin on his face. At the post-obit joint press conference, David is uncharacteristically believing while taking a stand against the president's intimidation techniques.
Feeling uncomfortable effectually Natalie, David has her moved to some other position. Nonetheless, he is spurred to action on Christmas Eve when he finds a Christmas card from her in his red box, declaring that she is his and only his. He finds her later on a door-to-door search of her street. Her entire family is on their fashion to a multi-school Christmas play and he offers to drive them and so he can talk to her. As Natalie sneaks him in to the school, he runs into his heartbroken sister, Karen, who believes he is at that place for his niece and nephew. As David and Natalie try to keep from being seen and scout from backstage, they finally osculation. Anybody sees them kissing equally the mantle rises.
Daniel, Sam, Joanna and Carol [edit]
Daniel (Liam Neeson), Karen'south close friend, mourns the recent decease of his wife, Joanna, equally he tries to care for his stepson Sam (Thomas Sangster). Sam has fallen for an American classmate, besides named Joanna (Olivia Olson), and after talking with his stepfather, decides to acquire the drums to back-trail her in the big finale for their school's Christmas pageant; likewise at Karen and Harry's children's schoolhouse. As Sam feels he has missed his gamble to impress her, Daniel convinces him to try to tell Joanna how he feels at the airport, earlier she returns to the US. Sam slips through airport security and catches upwards with her, who acknowledges him by name and kisses him on the cheek, revealing she likes him too. Meanwhile, Daniel meets Ballad (Claudia Schiffer), the mother of Sam's schoolmate, and there is a common spark.
Sarah, Karl and Michael [edit]
Sarah (Laura Linney) get-go appears at Juliet and Peter'southward wedding ceremony, sitting adjacent to her friend Jamie. An American working at Harry'southward graphic blueprint company, she has been in love with the creative director, Karl (Rodrigo Santoro) for years. Prompted by Harry, they finally connect at the Christmas party and he drives her habitation. Michael, her mentally ill brother, phones from his mental care facility, causing their evening tryst to be aborted. On Christmas Eve they are both working late, just Karl only wishes her a merry Christmas and leaves. Sarah calls, and goes to see Michael, gifting him a Christmas scarf.
Colin, Tony and the American girls [edit]
Unsuccessfully attempting to woo various English women, including Mia and Nancy (Julia Davis), Juliet and Peter'southward wedding caterer, Colin Frissell (Kris Marshall) informs his friend Tony (Abdul Salis) that he plans to go to America, convinced that his Britishness will exist an nugget. Landing in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Colin meets Stacey (Ivana Miličević), Jeannie (January Jones) and Ballad-Anne (Elisha Cuthbert), three stunningly attractive women who instantly fall for his Estuary English accent, inviting him to stay at their domicile, where they are joined by their room-mate Harriet (Shannon Elizabeth).
John and Judy [edit]
John (Martin Freeman) and Judy (Joanna Folio) are professional person body doubles for films. They see doing the sex scenes for a film for which Tony is a production assistant. John tells Judy that "It'southward lovely to notice someone [he] tin actually chat to." While they are perfectly comfortable being naked and simulating sexual practice on-set, they are shy and tentative off-set. They carefully pursue a human relationship, attention the Christmas pageant (involving David and Natalie, Harry and Karen'south children, Daniel and Sam, etc.) at the local school with John's blood brother.
Rufus [edit]
Rufus (Rowan Atkinson) is the jewellery salesman whose meticulous souvenir-wrapping well-nigh results in Karen seeing Harry ownership a necklace for Mia. In another scene, his distraction of airport staff enables Sam to sneak past them to talk to Joanna. (In the director and cast commentary, information technology is revealed that Rufus was originally supposed to be a Christmas angel, but this was dropped from the concluding script.)
Epilogue [edit]
One month later on, all of the characters are seen at Heathrow Airport. Billy's Christmas unmarried has spurred a comeback. Juliet, Peter and Marking encounter Jamie and his helpmate, Aurélia. Karen and the kids greet Harry, but Karen's stifled reaction suggests they are struggling to movement past his indiscretion. Sam greets Joanna, who has returned from America, and Daniel is joined by his new girlfriend Carol and her son. Newlyweds John and Judy, heading off to their honeymoon, run into Tony, who is awaiting Colin'due south render from America. Colin returns with Harriet and her sister Carla (Denise Richards), who meets Tony for the first time merely greets him with a hug and a buss on the lips. Natalie welcomes David back from his flying in view of the printing, showing their human relationship is now public. These scenes deliquesce into footage of actual arrivals at Heathrow, as the screen is divided into an increasing number of smaller segments which form the shape of a heart.
Story association [edit]
Interconnections between the Dearest Actually characters
All the stories are linked in some style; while Billy Mack and his director may not connect with whatsoever of the other characters physically, Billy appears ofttimes on characters' radios and TVs, his music video twice providing an important plot device for Sam'due south pursuit of Joanna, and they besides cantankerous paths with the other characters in the endmost Heathrow scene. John and Judy piece of work with Tony, who is best friends with Colin, who works for a catering company that services the part where Sarah, Karl, Mia and Harry work. Mia is friends with Mark, who runs the art gallery where the Christmas office party takes identify. Mia also lives next door to Natalie. Mark is in love with Juliet and friends with Peter. The couple are friends with Jamie and Sarah. Harry is married to Karen, who is friends with Daniel and her blood brother is David, who works with Natalie. Harry and Karen's children (and thus David's niece and nephew), Natalie's siblings (and thus Mia's neighbours) and Ballad's son are all schoolmates of Sam and Joanna. An additional plot that was dropped in editing concerned the children'south headmistress (Anne Reid) and her dying lesbian partner (Frances de la Tour).[seven]
Bandage [edit]
- Alan Rickman as Harry
- Emma Thompson as Karen
- Hugh Grant equally David, the Prime number Minister
- Keira Knightley as Juliet
- Colin Firth as Jamie
- Sienna Guillory every bit Jamie's girlfriend
- Lúcia Moniz every bit Aurélia
- Liam Neeson as Daniel
- Thomas Sangster every bit Sam
- Neb Nighy as Billy Mack
- Gregor Fisher as Joe
- Martine McCutcheon as Natalie
- Chiwetel Ejiofor as Peter
- Andrew Lincoln as Mark
- Laura Linney as Sarah
- Rodrigo Santoro equally Karl
- Michael Fitzgerald equally Michael
- Kris Marshall as Colin
- Abdul Salis as Tony
- Heike Makatsch as Mia
- Martin Freeman every bit John
- Joanna Page as Judy
- Olivia Olson as Joanna
- Billy Bob Thornton every bit the U.S. President
- Rowan Atkinson as Rufus
- Claudia Schiffer every bit Carol
- Nina Sosanya as Annie
- Ivana Miličević as Stacey
- January Jones as Jeannie
- Elisha Cuthbert as Carol-Anne
- Shannon Elizabeth equally Harriet
- Denise Richards equally Carla
- Lulu Popplewell as Daisy
- Marcus Brigstocke equally Mikey
- Julia Davis as Nancy
- Ruby Turner as Jean
- Adam Godley as Mr Trench
- Élisabeth Margoni as Eleonore
- Meg Wynn Owen as Mary, PM's secretary
Production [edit]
Development [edit]
Initially, Curtis started writing with two distinct and divide films in heed, each featuring expanded versions of what would somewhen become storylines in Love Actually; those featuring Hugh Grant and Colin Firth.[8] He changed tack, however, having go frustrated with the procedure.[9] Partly inspired by the films of Robert Altman also as films such as Pulp Fiction, and inspired past Curtis having become "more interested in writing a moving-picture show most love and what love sort of means" he had the idea of creating an ensemble moving picture.[9] The film initially did not have whatever sort of Christmas theme, although Curtis's penchant for such films somewhen caused him to write it as 1.[10]
Curtis'southward original concept for the film included fourteen unlike scenarios, just 4 of them were cutting (2 having been filmed).[11] The scene in which Colin attempts to chat up the female caterer at the wedding appeared in drafts of the screenplay for Four Weddings and a Funeral, merely was cutting from the concluding version. The music video for Baton Mack's vocal, "Christmas Is All Around", is a tribute to Robert Palmer'southward 1986 video, "Addicted to Dear".[11] Curtis has spoken negatively well-nigh the editing process for the film, which he labelled in 2022 equally a "catastrophe" and "The only nightmare scenario that I've been caught in".[13] The moving-picture show was rushed in club to be set for the 2003 Christmas season which he likened to "three-dimensional chess".[13]
Casting [edit]
Pismire and Dec played themselves in the film with Beak Nighy'southward character referring to December as "Ant or December". This refers to the common mistaking of one for the other, attributable to their constant joint professional presence as a comedy and presenting duo. The veteran actress Jeanne Moreau is seen briefly, entering a taxi at the Marseille Airport. The soul singer Red Turner appears as Joanna Anderson'southward mother, one of the backing singers at the school Christmas pageant.
Curtis cast his daughter Scarlett in the film; she was given the choice of existence an angel or a lobster, and played the office of Lobster number ii in the nativity play, on the status that she met Keira Knightley.[14]
Helder Costa plays Mr Barros, Aurelia'due south father. He is a veteran actor in Portuguese cinema.[fifteen]
Locations [edit]
Most of the motion-picture show was made on location in London, including Trafalgar Square, the central court of Somerset House in the Strand, Grosvenor Chapel on South Audley Street virtually Hyde Park, St Paul's Church, Clapham, the Millennium Bridge, Selfridges department store on Oxford Street, Lambeth Span, the Tate Modern in the former Bankside Ability Station, Canary Wharf, Marble Arch, the St. Lukes Mews off All Saint'south Road in Notting Hill, Chelsea Bridge, the OXO Tower, London City Hall, Poplar Route in Herne Loma, Elliott Schoolhouse in Pullman Gardens, Putney, Heathrow Airport and the Marseille Aerodrome. Scenes set in 10 Downing Street were filmed at Shepperton Studios.[xvi]
Standing up to the US President [edit]
Following Tony Blair'southward resignation as Prime number Minister, pundits and speculators commented on a potential anti-American shift in Gordon Dark-brown's cabinet equally a "Beloved Really moment", referring to the scene in which Hugh Grant's character stands upward to the Us President.[17] [18] [19] In 2009, during President Barack Obama's showtime visit to the UK, Chris Matthews referred to the president in Dearest Actually as an case of George W. Bush-league and other former presidents' bullying of European allies. Commenting on this, Mediaite's Jon Bershad described the U.Due south. president character as a "sleazy Bill Clinton/George Westward. Bush hybrid".[xx] In the scene in question, the swaggering president bullies the prime government minister and so sexually harasses a member of the household staff. In September 2013, David Cameron fabricated a speech in reply to Russia's comment that Britain was a modest insignificant land, which drew comparisons with Hugh Grant's speech communication during the picture.[21]
Soundtrack [edit]
| Love Actually | |
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| Soundtrack album by Various Artists | |
| Released | 17 November 2003 |
| Label | Universal, Island |
| No. | Title | Artist | Length |
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| 1. | "Spring" | Girls Aloud | |
| ii. | "Besides Lost in You" (Love Actually version) | Sugababes | |
| 3. | "The Trouble with Honey Is" | Kelly Clarkson | |
| 4. | "Hither with Me" | Dido | |
| 5. | "Christmas Is All Effectually" | Bill Nighy as Billy Mack | |
| 6. | "Turn Me On" | Norah Jones | |
| 7. | "Songbird" | Eva Cassidy | |
| 8. | "Sweetest Goodbye" | Maroon five | |
| nine. | "Wherever Y'all Will Go" | The Calling | |
| 10. | "I'll See Information technology Through" | Texas | |
| xi. | "Both Sides Now" (2000 version) | Joni Mitchell | |
| 12. | "White Christmas" | Otis Redding | |
| thirteen. | "Take Me as I Am" | Wyclef Jean and Sharissa | |
| fourteen. | "All I Want for Christmas Is You" | Olivia Olson | |
| xv. | "God Only Knows" | The Beach Boys | |
| sixteen. | "All You Need Is Love" | Lynden David Hall | |
| 17. | "Sometimes" | Gabrielle | |
| 18. | "Glasgow Love Theme" | Craig Armstrong | |
| 19. | "PM's Dear Theme" | Craig Armstrong | |
| twenty. | "Portuguese Dearest Theme" | Craig Armstrong |
US version [edit]
The US edition of the soundtrack removed two pieces of score and "Sometimes" past Gabrielle and reordered the tracklist. It as well replaced the Girls Aloud cover of "Jump (For My Love)" with the original by The Pointer Sisters, and replaced Maroon 5'south "Sweetest Farewell" with a medley of "Sweetest Cheerio" with "Sunday Morning."
| No. | Championship | Artist | Length |
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| 1. | "The Trouble with Dearest Is" | Kelly Clarkson | |
| 2. | "Here with Me" | Dido | |
| 3. | "Medley: Sweetest Goodbye/Dominicus Morning" | Maroon five | |
| iv. | "Turn Me On" | Norah Jones | |
| v. | "Take Me as I Am" | Wyclef Jean and Sharissa | |
| 6. | "Songbird" | Eva Cassidy | |
| 7. | "Wherever Yous Volition Go" | The Calling | |
| eight. | "Jump (For My Dearest)" | The Pointer Sisters | |
| nine. | "Both Sides Now" (2000 version) | Joni Mitchell | |
| 10. | "All Y'all Need Is Beloved" | Lynden David Hall | |
| 11. | "God Only Knows" | The Beach Boys | |
| 12. | "I'll Run across It Through" | Texas | |
| 13. | "Too Lost in You" (Love Really version) | Sugababes | |
| xiv. | "Glasgow Love Theme" | Craig Armstrong | |
| fifteen. | "White Christmas" | Otis Redding | |
| 16. | "Christmas Is All Around" (soundtrack version) | Bill Nighy as Billy Mack | |
| 17. | "All I Want for Christmas Is Y'all" | Olivia Olson |
Score [edit]
The film's original score was composed, orchestrated and conducted past Craig Armstrong. It was commercially unreleased until 19 November 2021, when it was released digitally by Universal Pictures' Back Lot Music, and on CD by La-La Land Records.[22]
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Opening Titles" | 1:31 |
| 2. | "Christmas Is All Effectually (Montage)" | 5:23 |
| 3. | "Starting time Solar day" | 0:48 |
| 4. | "Natalie with Tea Trolley" | 0:18 |
| v. | "In Dear with Karl" | 0:54 |
| 6. | "Sam's Bedchamber" | 0:48 |
| 7. | "On the Demote" | 0:58 |
| 8. | "I'm in Honey" | 0:42 |
| ix. | "Total Agony" | 1:57 |
| 10. | "Saucy Minx / Aurélia Arrives" | 1:52 |
| 11. | "Bad Policies" | 0:57 |
| 12. | "Discovery of Kiss / Press Briefing" | two:22 |
| 13. | "Croissants in French republic" | 1:07 |
| 14. | "The Lake Scene" | 1:35 |
| 15. | "Saddest Part of Twenty-four hour period" | 1:13 |
| 16. | "Glasgow Love Theme" | two:05 |
| 17. | "PM Redistributes Natalie" | 0:34 |
| eighteen. | "Jamie Leaves Aurélia" | two:44 |
| 19. | "Sarah & Karl Get Wrong" | one:34 |
| 20. | "Karen in Bed" | 0:37 |
| 21. | "Harry & Mia" | 1:08 |
| 22. | "Wrapping the Necklace" | ii:55 |
| 23. | "Natalie on the Stairs" | ii:08 |
| 24. | "Natalie at the School" | one:27 |
| 25. | "Natalie Revealed / Karen Confronts Harry" | one:49 |
| 26. | "Joanna Drives Off" | half dozen:02 |
| 27. | "Sam & Joanna" | 1:14 |
| 28. | "Portuguese Dearest Theme" | 3:10 |
| 29. | "Christmas Is All Around" (film version) (performed past Bill Nighy as Billy Mack) | 4:52 |
| 30. | "Greenshoots" | 0:18 |
| 31. | "Restaurant Ring" | 0:32 |
| 32. | "PM'southward Love Theme" | ii:12 |
| 33. | "Christmas Is All Around" (soundtrack version) (performed by Beak Nighy as Billy Mack) | iii:48 |
Certifications [edit]
The soundtrack album reached number 1 on the Britain Albums Nautical chart, and past Christmas 2022 information technology had spent 348 weeks on the Nautical chart.[25] It reached the top forty on the Us Billboard 200 in 2004 and ranked second on the Peak Soundtracks chart. It accomplished platinum record status in Australia.
Employ in moving-picture show [edit]
The UK and US versions of the actual film contain two instances of alternative music. In the UK cut, the montage leading up to and continuing through the start part of the part party is set to the song "Too Lost in You", by the British grouping Sugababes. In the U.s. version of the film, this song is replaced with "The Trouble with Dear Is", performed by the American singer Kelly Clarkson. Subsequently, in the Great britain version's cease credit curlicue, the 2d song is a cover of "Jump (For My Dear)" performed by Girls Aloud; in the US version, this vocal is replaced with "Too Lost in You lot".
Several songs were heard in the film but did not appear on either soundtrack:
- "Farewell Bye Baby (Baby Farewell)" performed by Bay City Rollers
- "Puppy Honey" performed by S Club Juniors
- "All I Desire for Christmas Is You" performed past Tessa Niles
- "River" performed by Joni Mitchell
- "Rose" from the Titanic score, written past James Horner
- "Like I Beloved You lot" performed by Justin Timberlake
- "All Alone on Christmas" performed by Darlene Love
- "Polish" by Santana featuring Rob Thomas
- "Silent Nighttime" performed by Pre Teens
- "Skilful Male monarch Wenceslas" performed by Hugh Grant (equally David) and Andrew Tinkler (equally Gavin)
- "Catch a Falling Star" performed past child bandage
Reception [edit]
Box office [edit]
The Working Championship Films production, with a budget of $twoscore–45 million, was released past Universal Pictures. It grossed $62.7 million in the Britain, $fourteen million in Australia[26] and $59.5 one thousand thousand in the Usa and Canada. It took a worldwide full of $246.ii million.[4]
Critical response [edit]
The review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes reported that 64% of 224 critics gave the flick a positive review, with an average rating of 6.4/ten. The site's critics consensus states: "A sugary tale overstuffed with too many stories. Withal, the cast charms."[27] On Metacritic, the picture show holds a weighted average score of 55 out of 100, based on 41 critics, indicating "mixed or boilerplate reviews".[28] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the motion-picture show an boilerplate grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.[29]
Todd McCarthy of Variety called it "a roundly entertaining romantic comedy," a "adamantly cheery confection," and "a package that feels as luxuriously appointed and expertly tooled as a Rolls-Royce" and predicted "its derisive wit, impossibly attractive cast, and certain-handed professionalism ... along with its all-encompassing romanticism should make this a highly popular early holiday allure for adults on both sides of the pond".[xxx] Michael Atkinson of The Hamlet Vox called it "honey British way, handicapped slightly by corny circumstance and populated by colorful neurotics".[31] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the flick three+ i⁄2 out of 4 stars, describing it as "a belly-flop into the sea of romantic comedy ... The movie's only flaw is also a virtue: It's jammed with characters, stories, warmth and laughs, until at times Curtis seems to be working from a checklist of obligatory movie love situations and doesn't want to leave anything out ... Information technology feels a lilliputian like a gourmet meal that turns into a hot-dog eating contest."[32] Susan Wloszczyna of The states Today wrote "Curtis' multi-tiered block of comedy, slathered in eye-candy icing and set mostly in London at Christmas, serves sundry slices of dearest—distressing, sweet and silly—in all of their messy, oft surprising, glory."[33]
Owen Gleiberman of Amusement Weekly rated it B and called it "a toasty, star-packed ensemble one-act ... [that's] going to make a lot of holiday romantics feel very, very good; watching it; I felt cozy and charmed myself."[34] Nev Pierce of the BBC awarded information technology 4 of a possible five stars and called it a "vibrant romantic comedy ... Warm, bittersweet and hilarious, this is lovely, actually. Ready to be smitten."[35] Carla Meyer of the San Francisco Chronicle opined "[it] abandons whatever pretext of sophistication for gloppy sentimentality, sugary pop songs and bawdy sense of humour – an approach that works about half the time ... nearly of the story lines maintain interest because of the fine cast and general goodwill of the picture."[36]
In his review in The New York Times, journalist A. O. Scott called it "a romantic comedy swollen to the length of an Oscar-trawling epic – well-nigh two and a quarter hours of cheekiness, diffidence and high-tone smirking" and added, "information technology is more similar a record label'south greatest-hits compilation or a very special sitcom clip-reel show than an bodily motion-picture show. ... the motion picture'due south governing idea of love is both shallow and quack, and its sweet, chipper demeanor masks a sour cynicism about human emotions that is all the more sleazy for remaining unacknowledged. It has the calloused, leering soul of an early-60s rat-pack one-act, but without the suave, seductive bravado. ... It is disturbing to come across [Emma] Thompson's range and subtlety and then shamelessly trashed, and to run into Laura Linney's intelligence similarly abused as a lonely, frustrated do-gooder. The fate of their characters suggests that women who are non young, pert secretaries or household workers have no real hope of sexual fulfillment and can find only a compromised, damaged form of love."[37]
In Rolling Stone, Peter Travers rated information technology two stars out of a possible iv, saying "at that place are laughs laced with feeling here, but the deft screenwriter Richard Curtis dilutes the touch by tossing in more and more than stories. As a director ... Curtis can't seem to rein in his writer. ... He ladles carbohydrate over the eager-to-please Beloved Actually to make information technology go downwardly like shooting fish in a barrel, forgetting that sometimes it just makes you gag."[38] Christopher Orr of The Atlantic remains negative toward the work and described information technology as the least romantic movie of all time, considering its ultimate bulletin to exist, "It'southward probably best if you lot give up on dear altogether and get on with the remainder of your life."[39] [40]
Although critics' response to Love Actually was mixed, the film is pop amidst audiences and has been discussed every bit an arguable modern-day Christmas classic.[6] [41] [42]
Accolades [edit]
| Ceremony | Award | Nominee(southward) | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| British Academy Picture show Awards (BAFTA) | Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film | Love Actually | Nominated |
| Best Actor in a Supporting Role | Pecker Nighy | Won | |
| Best Actress in a Supporting Office | Emma Thompson | Nominated | |
| Aureate Globe Awards | Best Movement Picture – Musical or Comedy | Love Actually | Nominated |
| Best Screenplay | Nominated | ||
| Empire Awards | Best British Motion-picture show | Won | |
| Best British Actress | Emma Thompson | Won | |
| All-time Newcomer | Martine McCutcheon | Won | |
| Best Newcomer | Andrew Lincoln | Nominated | |
| Evening Standard British Film Awards | Best Actress | Emma Thompson | Won |
| Peter Sellers Honour for Comedy | Bill Nighy | Won | |
| European Film Award | Best Actor | Hugh Grant | Nominated |
| Best Managing director | Richard Curtis | Nominated | |
| London Flick Critics Circle Award | All-time British Supporting Histrion | Bill Nighy | Won |
| Best British Supporting Actress | Emma Thompson | Won | |
| Los Angeles Film Critics Clan Award | All-time Supporting Actor | Bill Nighy | Won |
| Satellite Awards | Best Supporting Role player, Musical or Comedy | Bill Nighy and Thomas Sangster | Nominated |
| Best Supporting Actress, Musical or Comedy | Emma Thompson | Nominated |
Other adaptations [edit]
The screenplay by Richard Curtis was published by Michael Joseph Ltd. in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland and by St. Martin's Griffin in the United states.[43]
Red Nose Solar day Actually [edit]
In 2017, Richard Curtis wrote a script for Red Nose Day which reunited a dozen characters and picked upwards their storylines fourteen years subsequently. Filming began in February 2017, and the curt movie was circulate on BBC One on 24 March 2017.[44]
Meet also [edit]
- Listing of Christmas films
- Love Is All (Dutch: Alles is Liefde), 2007 Dutch romantic comedy flick inspired by Love Actually
- Salute To Love (Hindi: Salaam-e-Ishq), 2007 Indian picture based on Dearest Actually [45]
- He'southward Just Non That Into You, 2009 American romantic comedy film with multiple protagonists and stories similar to Love Actually.
- New Year Trees (Russian: Yolki), also known as Half dozen Degrees of Celebration, 2010 comedy film that launched a successful movie franchise spanning half-dozen sequels
- Letters to Santa (Polish: Listy do Grand.), 2011 Polish film inspired by Love Actually
- "Glee, Actually", 2012 vacation episode from the fourth flavour of the American musical television series Glee
- Information technology All Began When I Met Yous, 2013 Japanese film inspired by Love Actually
- List of fictional prime number ministers of the United kingdom
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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Actually
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