Love Actually [Blu-ray]

Director: Richard Curtis

Overview

All of London is in love -- or longing to be -- in Four Weddings and a Funeral writer Richard Curtis' first directorial effort. Billed as "the ultimate romantic comedy," Love Actually involves more than a dozen main characters, each weaving his or her way into another's heart over the course of one particularly eventful Christmas. The seemingly perfect wedding of Juliet (Keira Knightley) and Peter (Chiwetel Ejiofor) brings many of the principals together, including heartsick best man Mark (Andrew Lincoln), who harbors a very unrequited crush on Juliet. There's also recent widower Daniel (Liam Neeson), trying to help his lonely stepson Sam (Thomas Sangster) express his true feelings to a classmate. Across town, devoted working mother Karen (Emma Thompson) tries to rekindle the passion of her husband, Harry (Alan Rickman), who secretly pines for a young colleague of his. In the same office, the lonely Sarah (Laura Linney) not-so-secretly pines for a man just a few desks away (Rodrigo Santoro), who returns her affections but may not be able to dissuade her neuroses. Providing the unofficial soundtrack for all of the couples is an aging rocker (Bill Nighy) who just wants to cash in and get laid -- but even he might find a meaningful relationship in the most unlikely of places. A working print of Love Actually premiered at the 2003 Toronto International Film Festival.

Product Details

Release Date:	11/03/2009
UPC:	0025192010583
Original Release:	2003
Rating:	R
Source:	Universal Studios
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo]
Language:	English
Time:	2:00:00
Sales rank:	12,158

Special Features

Deleted Scenes; The Music of Love Actually; Kelly Clarkson "The Trouble With Love Is" Music Video; Billy Mack "Christmas Is All Around" Music Video; The Storytellers; Feature Commentary with Director Richard Curtis and Actors Hugh Grant, Bill Nighy and Thomas Sangster

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Bill Nighy	Billy Mack
Hugh Grant	Prime Minister
Liam Neeson	Daniel
Emma Thompson	Karen
Colin Firth	Jamie
Martine McCutcheon	Natalie
Alan Rickman	Harry,Harry
Laura Linney	Sarah
Keira Knightley	Juliet
Billy Bob Thornton	President of the United States of America
Rowan Atkinson	Rufus,Billy's Video Vixen
Rodrigo Santoro	Karl
Gregor Fisher	Joe,Airport Guard
Kris Marshall	Colin Frissell
Sienna Guillory	Jamie's Girlfriend
Heike Makatsch	Mia
Martin Freeman	John
Chiwetel Ejiofor	Peter
Andrew Lincoln	Mark
Nina Sosanya	Annie
Elisha Cuthbert	Carol-Anne, American Goddess
Joanna Page	Just Judy
Billy Campbell	Natalie's Octopus Brother, Keith
Claudia Schiffer	Carol
Denise Richards	Carla, the Real Friendly One
Rory MacGregor	Engineer
Lulu Popplewell	Daisy, Her Daughter
Frank Moorey	Terence, Who's in Charge
Jill Freud	Pat the Housekeeper
Tim Hatwell	Vicar
Lynden David Hall	The Wedding Singer
Jont Whittington	Guitarist
Dan Fredenburgh	Jamie's Bad Brother
Julia Davis	Nancy the Caterer
Abdul Salis	Tony
Alan Barnes	Movie Director
Shaughan Seymour	Movie Cameraman
Helen Murton	Funeral Priest
Edward Hardwicke	Sam's Grandfather
Caroline John	Sam's Grandmother
Gemma Aston	Family Mourner
Matt Harvey	Family Mourner
Adrian Preater	Family Mourner
Joanna Thaw	Family Mourner
Junior Simpson	Wedding DJ
Brian Bovell	Radio Watford DJ
Sarah McDougall	Receptionist
Marcus Brigstocke	Mikey, DJ Interviewer
Richard Hawley	Alex, Deputy Prime Minister
Wyllie Longmore	Jeremy
Gillian Barge	Cabinet Minister
Richard Wills-Cotton	Cabinet Minister
Kate Bowes Renna	Cabinet Minister
Kate Glover	Cabinet Minister
Nicola McRoy	Cabinet Minister
Anthony McPartlin	Ant
Declan Donnelly	Dec
Elizabeth Margoni	Eleonore
Peter Marinker	U.S. Expert
Keir Charles	Press Conference Reporter
Doraly Rosen	Press Conference Reporter
Meg Wynn Owen	PM's Secretary
Carol Carey	Natalie's Replacement
Jo Whiley	Radio DJ
Clare Bennett	Billy's Video Vixen
Sarah Holland	Billy's Video Vixen
Vicki Murdoch	Billy's Video Vixen
Meredith Ostrom	Billy's Video Vixen
Katherine Poulton	Billy's Video Vixen
Tuuli	Billy's Video Vixen
Michael Parkinson	Parky
Michael Fitzgerald	Michael, Sarah's Brother
Ciaran O'Driscoll	Hospital Patient
William Wadham	Bernie, Karen's Son
Catia Duarte	Language Student
Igor Urdenko	Language Student
Nat Udom	Language Student
Ines Boughanmi	Language Student
Yuk Sim Yau	Language Student
John Sharian	Wisconsin Taxi Driver
Glenn Conroy	Barman
Ivana Milicevic	Stacey, American Dreamgirl
January Jones	Jeannie, American Angel
Wes Butters	Radio 1 Chart Show DJ
Laura Rees	Record Company Executive
Emma Buckley	Jamie's Sister
Terry Reece	PM's Chauffeur, Terry
Colin Coull	PM's Bodyguard, Gavin
Margery Mason	Harris Street Old Lady
Katharine Bailey	Harris Street Little Girl
Tiffany Boysell	Her Friend
Georgia Flint	Her Friend
Joanna Bacon	Natalie's Mum
Bill Moody	Natalie's Dad
Paul Slack	John's Brother
Adam Godley	Mr. Trench
Olivia Olson	Joanna Anderson
Ruby Turner	Mrs. Jean Anderson
Amanda Garwood	Backing-Singer Teacher
Arturo Venegas	Mr. Anderson
Patrick Delaney	Tommy, Carol's Son
Helder Costa	Mr. Barros
Carla Vasconcelos	Sophia Barros
Stewart Howson	Airport Gate Man
Jamie Edgell	Airport Guard
Paul Heasman	Airport Guard
Tony Lucken	Airport Guard
Raul Atalaia	Restaurant Proprietor
Nancy Sorrell	Greta
Shannon Elizabeth	Harriet, the Sexy One
Thomas Brodie-Sangster	Sam
Craig Armstrong	Composer
L?cia Moniz	Aurelia,Actor
Thomas Sangster	Sam
Sheila Allen	Jamie's Mum
Megan Owen	PM's Secretary
Margus Tuuling	Billy's Video Vixen
Cecilia Weston	Conductor
English	Voices

Technical Credits

Richard Curtis

Richard Curtis	Screenwriter,Executive Producer
Tim Bevan	Producer
Richard Conway	Special Effects
Eric Fellner	Producer
Duncan Kenworthy	Producer
Mary Selway	Casting
Fiona Weir	Casting
Liza Chasin	Producer
Debra Hayward	Producer
Adam Daniel	Sound Effects,Sound Effects
Avril Soards	Stunts
Mark White	Special Effects
Camilla-Valentine Isola	Casting
Sarah-Jane Wright	Executive Producer
Sam Conway	Special Effects
Shaheen Baig	Casting
Tracey Caudle	Stunts
Stephanie Corsalini	Casting
Talila Craig	Stunts
David A. Stephenson	Sound Mixer
Geoff Foster	Sound Mixer

Editorial Reviews

It's not easy to craft romantic comedies with ensemble casts, and few filmmakers have done so as well as screenwriter Richard Curtis, whose credits include Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, and Bridget Jones's Diary. For Love Actually, his directorial debut, he has composed a comedy of symphonic proportions, a surprisingly sprightly romp that boasts a dizzying array of characters connected in unpredictable ways. The story is set in London during Christmas, as the newly elected prime minister (Hugh Grant) takes office and immediately falls for a working-class staffer (Martine McCutcheon). Meanwhile, his middle-aged sister (Emma Thompson) is beginning to worry that her husband (Alan Rickman) might succumb to the blandishments of a sexually aggressive coworker, while elsewhere in the office Laura Linney pines for hunky Rodrigo Santoro. On other fronts, a recently minted widower (Liam Neeson) struggles to raise his adolescent stepson, and Colin Firth rebounds from heartbreak by falling for his non-English-speaking assistant. Stringing the whole thing together is the film's best story line, which involves an aging, dissipated rocker (Bill Nighy) who records a corny Christmas song that becomes an unexpected holiday hit. As one expects with Curtis, the script is fairly literate and refreshingly free of tacky humor. Which is not to say that Love Actually doesn't have its ribald moments; in fact, it's probably the lustiest picture Curtis has done to date. Still the characters are generally likable and the movie brims with wonderful bits: Rowan Atkinson, for instance, contributes a quietly hysterical turn as a prissy department-store clerk. In the vast rough of romantic comedies, Love Actually is a genuinely witty and enchanting diamond.