Love Actually

Hugh Grant - The Prime Minister
Colin Firth - Jamie
Emma Thompson - Karen
Keira Knightley - Juliet
Alan Rickman - Harry
Liam Neeson - Daniel
Bill Nighy - Billy Mack
Martine McCutcheon - Natalie
Laura Linney - Sarah
Rowan Atkinson - Rufus
Billy Bob Thornton -n U.S. President
Kris Marshall - Colin Frissell

London lives and loves collide as ten loosely intertwining vignettes mingle and climax on Christmas Eve - with romantic, hilarious and bittersweet consequences for anyone lucky, or not so lucky, enough to be under love’s spell. Richard Curtis, the king of romantic comedy and screenwriter of Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), Notting Hill (1999) and Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001) steps behind the camera for his directorial debut in this poignant comedy. The heavyweight ensemble cast deliver the quality performances you would expect but its Bill Nighy's jaded rock star impersonation that steals the show. The skilfully interwoven portmanteau story is a masterpiece of cinematic saccharine set in a comfortably middle-class fairytale London that doesn’t exist, but it’s difficult to resist a film so brimming with heart-warming charm.

The stories involve the newly elected bachelor Prime Minister (Hugh Grant) instantly falling in love with a refreshingly real member of the staff (Martine McCutcheon) moments after entering 10 Downing Street. To a jilted writer (Colin Firth) escaping to the south of France to nurse his re-broken heart, finding love with a Portuguese cleaning lady that can’t speak English. From a comfortably married woman (Emma Thompson) suspecting that her unfaithful husband (Alan Rickman) is slipping away. To a new bride (Keira Knightley) mistaking the distance of her husband’s best friend for something it’s not. From a schoolboy seeking to win the attention of the most unattainable girl in school. To a widowed stepfather (Liam Neeson) with a crush on Claudia Schiffer, trying to connect with a stepson who has fallen in love with the most beautiful girl at his school. From a lovelorn junior office worker (Laura Linney) seizing a chance with her long-tended, unspoken office crush. Then there’s a sex-starved loser (Kris Marshall) heading to the United States with a rucksack of condoms to find love. To an aging “seen it all, remember very little of it” drug addled rock star (Bill Nighy) orchestrating a shameless end-of-career comeback with a grisly Christmas version of Love Is All Around.