Love Actually (2003) on Netflix
In the five weeks before Christmas, eight London love stories overlap. A new prime minister falls for a household servant, a widower raises his stepson, and a writer retreats to France.
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Plot summary
David moves into 10 Downing Street as the newly elected prime minister, drawn to Natalie on the household staff. Daniel's wife has died, leaving him to raise his stepson Sam alone. Juliet and Peter marry, and Peter's best friend Mark keeps his distance from Juliet. Jamie finds his girlfriend with his brother and leaves for a cottage in France, where Aurélia works as housekeeper and neither speaks the other's language. Harry's new assistant Mia makes her interest plain, though he is married to Karen. Sarah has wanted her colleague Karl for two years. John and Judy work as movie body doubles who simulate sex on camera. Billy Mack promotes a Christmas single he calls rubbish, and Colin blames British women for his lack of romance.
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Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Love Actually (2003)
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- Curtis had two actors in mind for the part of Mack but could not decide between them, so he told casting director Mary Selway to find someone who would do the part well but whom he would never think to cast; she suggested Nighy.
- A storyline of two scenes, the film's only gay love story, was shot and then cut: Anne Reid, as the headmistress of Karen's children's school, goes home to her terminally ill partner Geraldine, played by Frances de la Tour, and Karen later acknowledges Geraldine's death. Curtis said he regretted losing it.
- Alan Rickman's irritated reaction to Rowan Atkinson's character Rufus was reportedly genuine: he had been “driven insane” by the time constraints. Hugh Grant disliked filming his dance scene, calling it “excruciating” and “absolute hell”.
