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List Price: $12.98 | | Label: Universal Studios
Salesrank: 125
Released: April 27, 2004 |
| Our Price: $6.77 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
"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.
Description of Love Actually (Widescreen Edition):
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
Love Actually (Widescreen Edition) Reviews:
One of My Favorites 
2009-12-09 - The stories are grounded in reality-- well, at least as much as most Christmas movies, anyway. And though certain parts do stretch "realism", it's a about delivering the message that love is all around-- in many ways, shapes and forms. Some of the lines may be a bit corny, but the stories are clever-- as if to say "look no further than those around each of us". It's a new and creative way of looking at holiday films, which is intriguing and makes me want to curl up on the couch with hot cocoa and just enjoy.
Great Movie!
2009-12-07 - One of my favorite holiday movies! But even better is that it doesn't have to be Christmas time to watch it!
Great, Non-Traditional Holiday Movie!
2009-12-05 - This is one of my FAVORITE Holiday movies and romances. Even though I have a penchant for more high drama in romance (like Sense and Sensibility and Moulin Rouge) this very down-to-earth, realistic and heart-felt "dramadey" is wonderful to watch at Christmas time, or any time you need to believe in the beauty of unexpected love, the heartbreak of unrequited love or the sting of love betrayed. I guess I should have been born in the United Kingdom, because this film features some of my favorite actors ... all Brits, of course. Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Colin Firth and a slew of additionally talented British actors. The myriad love stories throughout the movie intertwine seamlessly and each stands on its own as well.
If you want to be warmed by love for over the Holiday Season, but don't want to see the saccharine-coated, overly mushy typical romantic fare, or the over-the-top, "holidays are insane" type comedies, I recommend "Love, Actually" as a fulfilling new Holiday classic!!
Great Service
2009-12-03 - This DVD arrived speedily and the case was completely intact with not a broken edge to be seen. Even better, there was no needless packaging. Thanks! Will buy from you again.
Tries too hard 
2009-12-01 - Surely there couldn't be a shallower PM than Hugh Grant's character. He doesn't have the social skills or the brain cells for the job. His crush isn't what most of us would consider love, actually. At the end of his segment she runs up to him in public and jumps on him with both legs wrapped around his waist. Look at Grant's face; he doesn't quite believe it himself.
None of the relationships had time to ripen. The story tried to tie up all the segments into a nice Christmas pageant bow at the end, but it didn't quite work. And there are seriously depressing fates for 2 or 3 of these couples. Love, actually not.
