| | | It's all about love...actually.
Features: DVD, Widescreen, Dolby Digital (5.1), Dolby Surround Sound, Audio Commentary, Deleted Scenes, Music Video, English, Spanish, French
"Get ready for fun!" (Leah Rozen, People) with the "feel good movie of the year!" (Clay Smith, Access Hollywood) Love Actually is the ultimate romantic comedy from the makers of Bridget Jones's Diary and Notting Hill. Funny, irresistible and heartwarming, an all-star cast (Hugh Grant, Liam Neeson, Colin Firth and Emma Thompson, to name a few!) will take you on a breathtaking tour of love's delightful twists and turns. Fall under the spell of Love Actually and share the laughs and charm again and again.
"Love Actually is irresistible. You'd have to be Ebenezer Scrooge not to walk out smiling." Claudia Puig, USA Today
"... Love Actually is just about impossible to dislike." Steven Rae, Philadelphia Inquirer
"A roundly entertaining romantic comedy, Love Actually is still nearly as cloying as it is funny..." Todd McCarthy, Variety
Editor's Note
Written and directed by Richard Curtis and produced by Duncan Kenworthy (the team behind NOTTING HILL and FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL) this zingy British comedy weaves a vivid crazy quilt of interlocking or unrelated vignettes all dealing with the subject of love over the Christmas holidays in London. The big name cast includes Hugh Grant as a prime minister who falls for a staff member, Liam Neeson as a widower counseling his son in the ways of romance, Laura Linney as a shy woman working up the nerve to ask out a coworker, Emma Thompson and Alan Rickman as a couple faced with infidelity, and Colin Firth as a writer who falls for his Portuguese maid. Additionally, a pair of porn film stand-ins bond on the set, an artist fantasizes about his friend's wife; and perhaps funniest of all, an aging rock star (Bill Nighy) tries for his comeback with a Christmas novelty song. The likes of Billy Bob Thornton, Rowan Atkinson and Denise Richards turn in cameos, helping making this film a throwback to those all-star, multi-plotted comedies of the 1960s and '70s, such as IT'S A MAD MAD MAD MAD WORLD (1963), NASHVILLE (1975), and CALIFORNIA SUITE (1978). With Curtis' comedic credentials and the star wattage of pros like Grant, Neeson and Thompson, LOVE, ACTUALLY is a laugh-packed affair, with more than a few tears to be shed along the way, and a startling amount of bawdy raunchiness.
| Features | Subtitles: Spanish, French | | Music Video: Kelly Clarkson "The Trouble With Love Is" | | Widescreen Presentation | | Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1; French, Spanish Dolby Surround | | Feature Commentary With Director Richard Curtis and Actors Hugh Grant, Billy Nighy and Thomas Sangster | | Deleted Scenes With Introductions by Richard Curtis | | The Music Of Love Actually With Introductions by Richard Curtis |
| Entertainment Reviews
 | Love Actually - DVD Review By: Christopher Null - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 10/23/2009 5:09 PM | |
I can only presume that the British calendar is so uniquely screwy that it allows for a Christmas movie to open a week after Halloween. Or maybe Love Actually is just in a universe of its own… one in which the prime minister is inaugurated in November and where an adverb can be used to modify a noun. But a little oddness is forgivable: Directing a movie is a strange place for Richard Curtis, who's written umpteen Brit-friendly movies and TV shows over the years but hasn't directed one, until now. Little surprise then that Love Actually plays like a Richard Curtis Greatest Hits compilation. The film comprises nine major and barely-connected stories (as near as I can count) revolving around love and the weeks before Christmas....read the full review |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Universal |
| Release Date: 1/15/2008 |
| Running Time: 135 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2003 | | Catalog ID: 23293 | | UPC: 00025192329326 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English, French Dubbed, Spanish Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: French, Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Anamorphic Widescreen 2.35:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Golden Globe (2004) | | | Richard Curtis, Nominee, Best Screenplay--Motion Picture | |
British Academy Awards (2004) |  | Bill Knightly, Winner, Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role |
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| | Professional Reviews | Los Angeles Times
"...[Curtis brings] a sharp sense of character comedy combined with a very human touch. His feeling for people is as genuine as his wit, and he manages it all with a light-on-its-feet casualness..." 11/07/2003 p.C1Entertainment Weekly
"...A movie as sweetly munchable as a Christmas cookie..." 11/14/2003 p.93-4 Rolling Stone
"...There are laughs laced with feeling here..." 111/27/2003 p.103 Total Film
"...A big, snug duvet of a movie that you can flop into and get lost in..." 12/01/2003 p.90-1 USA Today
"LOVE ACTUALLY is irresistible." 11/07/2003 p.6E Chicago Sun-Times
"It's jammed with characters, stories, warmth and laughs." 11/07/2003 p.38 Film Comment
"[T]he film's freshness, sure-footed control of its emotional effects, and sincerity are hard to dismiss." 05/01/2004 p.78 James Berardinelli's ReelViews 8 of 10
Love Actually doesn't have a cynical frame in its celluloid. It's for all those romantics who
Entertainment Weekly 8 of 10
It's a toasty, star-packed ensemble comedy in which a handful of lonelyhearts attempt, with some suc - Owen Gleiberman
Chicago Sun-Times 9 of 10
The movie is written and directed by Richard Curtis, the same man who wrote three landmarks in recen - Roger Ebert
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