Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Love Actually (2003) (nat)

Joel bought this for me for Christmas and we watched it the other night--I'm getting a little behind in my posting. Anyway, it's super-cute.

It's a compilation of stories about love in various phases and intensities and most of them are quite sweet. Lots and lots of people: Colin Firth's girl cheats on him with his brother but he finds love with a non-English speaking Portuguese girl; Liam Neeson's wife has just died leaving him with a stepson who is madly in love with an American girl and they find a better love of each other as well as relationships with girls; Emma Thompson's husband Alan Rickman is having a sort-of affair with his secretary who is quite the slutty flirt; another guy has decided that he will be able to get more girls in the US; another couple find love after working together in an interesting job situation; Chiwetel Ejiofor has just married Kiera Knightly but his best friend loves her silently; Laura Linney tries to find love but is bound to her disabled brother; Hugh Grant has just become Prime Minister and reluctantly finds love with his head of catering (named Natalie); meanwhile Bill Nighy (as an aged has been rock musician) attempts to gain record sales and find flimsy relationships before realizing that his best relationship is with his longtime manager.

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