Juliet ( Keira Knightley) and Peter's ( Chiwetel Ejiofor) marriage ceremony is videotaped by the best man, Mark ( Andrew Lincoln). After briefly celebrating his victory at a party hosted by Sir Elton John, Billy discerns that Joe is in need of affection and suggests that he and Joe celebrate Christmas by getting drunk and watching porn. Although he thinks the record is terrible, Mack promotes the release in the hope it will become the Christmas number one single, which it does. With the help of his longtime manager Joe ( Gregor Fisher), rock and roll legend Billy Mack ( Bill Nighy) records a Christmas variation of The Troggs' ' Love Is All Around'. The film then tells the 'love stories' of many people: David's voiceover also relates that all the messages left by the people who died on the 9/11 planes were messages of love and not hate. The film begins with a voiceover from David ( Hugh Grant) commenting that whenever he gets gloomy about the state of the world he thinks about the arrivals terminal at Heathrow Airport, and the pure uncomplicated love felt as friends and families welcome their arriving loved ones. 1.8 Colin, Tony, and the American girls.Frequently shown during the Christmas season, the film has proved more popular with audiences than critics, and it has been discussed as being arguably a modern-day Christmas staple.

It received a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. Love Actually was a box-office success, grossing $246 million worldwide on a budget of $40–45 million. The story begins five weeks before Christmas and is played out in a weekly countdown until the holiday, followed by an epilogue that takes place one month later.Īn international co-production between the United Kingdom, the United States and France, the film was released in the United States on 14 November 2003 and a week later in the United Kingdom, to generally mixed reviews. Mostly filmed on location in London, the screenplay delves into different aspects of love as shown through ten separate stories involving a wide variety of individuals, many of whom are shown to be interlinked as the tales progress. It features an ensemble cast, composed predominantly of British actors, many of whom had worked with Curtis in previous film and television projects. Love Actually is a 2003 Christmas -themed romantic comedy film written and directed by Richard Curtis.

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