Love Actually (Full Screen Edition) | 
| Actors: Hugh Grant, Liam Neeson, Colin Firth, Laura Linney, Emma Thompson
Studio: Universal Studios
Category: DVD
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Rating:  782 reviews
Sales Rank: 4797
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dts Surround Sound, Dubbed, Dvd, Full Screen, Subtitled, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Portuguese (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 135 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: D24917D
UPC: 025192491726
EAN: 0025192491726
ASIN: B0001GL3K4
Theatrical Release Date: November 14, 2003
Release Date: April 27, 2004
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With no fewer than eight couples vying for our attention, Love Actually is like the Boston Marathon of romantic comedies, and everybody wins. Having mastered the genre as the writer of Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, and Bridget Jones's Diary, it appears that first-time director Richard Curtis is just like his screenplays: He just wants to be loved, and he'll go to absurdly appealing lengths to win our affection. With Love Actually, Curtis orchestrates a minor miracle of romantic choreography, guiding a brilliant cast of stars and newcomers as they careen toward love and holiday cheer in London, among them the Prime Minister (Hugh Grant) who's smitten with his caterer; a widower (Liam Neeson) whose young son nurses the ultimate schoolboy crush; a writer (Colin Firth) who falls for his Portuguese housekeeper; a devoted wife and mother (Emma Thompson) coping with her potentially unfaithful husband (Alan Rickman); and a lovelorn American (Laura Linney) who's desperately attracted to a colleague. There's more--too much more--as Curtis wraps his Christmas gift with enough happy endings to sweeten a dozen other movies. That he pulls it off so entertainingly is undeniably impressive; that he does it so shamelessly suggests that his writing fares better with other, less ingratiating directors. --Jeff Shannon
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"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.
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Higher on Betrayal than Love, actually. June 18, 2009
G.V. (Mexico City, Mexico)
There's plenty to love about LOVE ACTUALLY. It's just that I found a couple of the stories downright perverse. It may be convenient for the film not to show us where Keira Knightley's new romance will lead but nothing changes the fact that is not a love story but one of betrayal in which not much good will come out at the end; at least the Alan Rickman / Emma Thompson part is honest about its subject and what the consequences to his actions will eventually be for both of them. Further, what can you say about a story in which a girl is unfaithful to his boyfriend with his own brother ? The funny thing is that the filmakers want to make us believe these are just different facets of love and for some reason, they time them at Christmas time, as if they would actually have anything to do with the real meaning of Christmas.
Still, any movie in which Hugh Grant makes a convincing British Prime Minister can't be all bad. The truer love story in LOVE ACTUALLY ?: Laura Linney giving up on her dream for the sake of her brother, that part might just be enough to justify the title.
 Love Actually June 7, 2009
Richard D. Muranaka (Salt Lake City, UT)
Love Actually is a British movie with all the quirks that British Movies have. It is a heartwarming story about love in it's many forms.
Life is full of interruptions and complications but true love lasts a lifetime. April 30, 2009
Galina (Virginia, USA)
Love, Christmas, London, England
Richard Curtis, the talented writer of the very successful Four Weddings and Funeral, Nottting Hill, and Bridget Jones' Diary, and one of Mr. Bean's the creators, wrote and directed Love Actually, and what a directing debut it is. The ultimate romantic dramedy, the film that is not ashamed to be sweet, heartwarming, and outrage romantic. Love Actually talks about love, romances, break-ups, moving on, and does it admirably. This is the film I can watch over and over - during Christmas time or spring time, or summer, and it always brings warmth, humor, laughs, sadness, and yes, Love that is everywhere, just look a little closer. This is the film that makes me smile and even brings the tears to my eyes - all at once. Love Actually gives romantic comedy its good name back. It is a very good movie - sometimes, close to perfect, gorgeous, sweet in the good sense of the word and always lovely.
First, and foremost, I admire the film for outstanding (and I mean it) cast. Some of the best British and American and European actors (and there is also simply gorgeous Rodrigo Santoro who deserves a special mention) play twenty or even more Londoners who were hit by the Cupid's arrow during the Christmas season of 2003 in absolutely stunningly looking, lively and bright London. I won't be original if I say that the funniest character belongs to Bill Nighy as once super-famous rock star (in Keith Richard's type) who is making his comeback with an old love song that he is turning in the Christmas super hit. Another outstanding performance belongs to divine Emma Thompson. She brings depth and real emotions into her and Alan Rickman's story of the marriage in crisis. Laura Linney's story of love that was so close and possible but not meant to be was also very well told and acted.
This time, Liam Neeson's story as a newly widower with the young step-son who is desperately in love with the most popular girl in school, touched me the most. After recent untimely tragic death of Neeson's wife, the mother of his two sons, Natasha Richardson, the story feels the most poignant and sweetest. The scene during Daniel's wife funeral, his speech celebrating Joanna's life, moved me almost to tears.
Yes, it is a long movie and it tells the stories of 20 people or so who all happen to live, work, fell in love, sometimes have their hearts broke in London that I've never seen so bright and lovely as in this picture - perhaps, because the stories start five weeks prior to Christmas and end on Christmas night. With so many intertwining stories, not all of them are equally good. Some could be dropped, leaving the movie shorter, leaner, and perhaps better but even the way it is, Love Actually deserves its place on such top lists as Best of 2003, Favorites, and Favorite Romance. It is beautiful and magical - just like the season during which it takes place.
favorite movie April 25, 2009
J. Clancy (NYC)
Love actually is just the best movie. I got it for my son who is ver picky, and he loved it as well. There is so much in it. So much human, so much about love in a real way from silly to intense. Watch it over and over.
One of the Best Romantic Comedies In The Past Ten Years April 18, 2009
circawdm (Midwest, USA)
This movie is a delight, with a fantastic and well chosen cast of well known and new actors. I have given it as a gift to my family and friends. It has many stories going on at once, yet the director manages to blend them together, so that as time pases it becomes obvious that all the characters are actually quite connected.
Liam Neeson and Hugh Grant do superb jobs in their roles. Martine McCutcheon as Natalie is a delight, which adds to her popularity in England and the USA as a singer and winner of the Laurence Olivier Award. Others in the movie have long been well respected, notably Emma Thompson, Colin Firth and Laura Linney.
The soundtrack is wonderfully done for each scene and each character. The movie has abit of drama, some unrequited love, and some very clever sight gags and other things which engage and entertain throughout. The movie is abit long, but time passes quickly, as it does not have any slow moments while it goes from one story sub-plot to another. Billy Bob Thorton does a very good job as an arrogant and chauvinistic US president. Thomas Sangster, as Neeson's son who recently lost his mother, does an admirable job in a part that demands both serious as well as comedic acting skills.
This is truly a great movie for anyone over age sixteen or so, and especially for the adults who have been through many of the situations and problems examined in the movie in their lifetime. Throughout, it is a "feel good movie" that shows insight into love, fidelity, trust and the things in life that truly and "actually" matter. If you like this movie, you will enjoy watching it when you need cheering up, a good laugh, or watching something that points out that love, as complicated and difficult as it can be in its many forms, does indeed make the world go around.
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