Love Actually

Director: Richard Curtis
Cast: Hugh Grant, Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Colin Firth, Emma Thompson

It's Christmas Eve and love is all around. With eight tales and its various endings, (the 9th edited out by the censors), some humours, others mushy, some bitter-sweet, and some others unexpected. It's a Christmas film released at Valentine's time. A feel-good film to be enjoyed without reading too much into it.

There's Britain's bachelor Prime Minister (Grant) who falls for the member of his staff (Martine Mccutcheon) the moment he enters office, a writer (Firth) who falls for his Portuguese housekeeper (Moniz), a happily married man (Alack Rickman) who tries hard to resist the seductive games of his secretary who's determined to bed him, a shy junior (Linney) who's having trouble expressing her love to her co-worker (Rodrigo Santaro). 

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A newly-wed (Keira Knightley) who thinks her husband's best friend hates her, only to learn that it was love that he was trying to fight against; a British youth setting out to America to live out his wildest fantasies, and ecstatic at getting more than he bargained for, a schoolboy with a crush on his classmate and his widowed stepfather (Neeson) trying to help him out.

And finally the most touching of all, an aged, rougish Rock star (Bill Nighy), who earlier never failed to ridicule his loyal chubby manager, revealing his sensitive side when he leaves a celebrity party to spend time with his manager.

While Grant carries over his cute innocent demeanour here too, it's Bill, as the Rock star who never fails to shock with his wild acts on camera, who is the scene-stealer here, his hilarious antics worth a watch.

Malini Mannath
Published on 25^th Feb, 2004