Love Actually - Movie Reviews (2024)

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Was Love Actually a good movie? ›

Love Actually may not be completely realistic but it does what it aims for. It is a solid feel-good movie that does not make you cringe the entire film. This is not an artistically crafted love story, it's a simple movie meant to convey one simple idea; "love actually is all around."

The overriding message is that the holidays are better when you spend them with the people who care about you and that's good enough for us.

(Sam's real father's fate is never mentioned, he could be Tony Blair for all we know). The two negotiate their grief together as Sam is in love with a 10-year-old chanteuse named — heavy sigh — Joanna. Sam learns the drums so he can play in her Christmas band.

When Love Actually was released in 2003, Hugh Grant was 43 years old. Since Love Actually, Hugh Grant has continued to have a successful career with many roles in films such as Paddington 2 and The Undoing. He has also become a father to five children and got married for the first time in 2018.

Love Actually features a number of memorable moments, but perhaps the most iconic scene from the film involves Mark (Andrew Lincoln) turning up at Juliet's (Keira Knightley) house and professing his love for her with a series of cue cards.

"Love actually is not just positive love. It's also the repercussions of love and the responsibility of love and the heartbreak of love." While death, disappointment, illness and infidelity sprinkled are sprinkled throughout the piece, most of the characters get well-deserved happy endings.

Firstly, there's the lack of diversity, which Curtis admitted this week makes him “uncomfortable”. Then there's the fact that all of the relationships are heterosexual (a same-sex storyline, with Frances De La Tour and Anne Reid, was cut).

Arguably one of the most joyful scenes of the whole film, the footage of loved ones reuniting in Heathrow Airport at the end of Love Actually is entirely real. The camera crew set-up shop at the bustling airport for a week, filming friends and families meeting once again.

When a fan asked Freud to clarify the ending, she said that the couple does in fact, stay married. @JPerlstrom they stay together but home isn't as happy as it once was. Freud also said that Harry did completely cheat on Karen with Mia, another fact that was ambiguous to viewers in the movie.

Olivia Olson(I)

She is an actress and writer, known for Adventure Time (2010), Love Actually (2003) and Red Nose Day Actually (2017)

Is Daniel really Sam's father Love Actually? ›

Daniel wasn't Sam's biological father, but he looked after Sam as if he was his own. Daniel supported Sam through his grief and the "... total agony of being in love." Sam's crush on his school friend Joanna consumed his attention, and he wanted to find ways of getting him to notice her.

Daniel (Liam Neeson), Karen's close friend, mourns the recent death of his wife, Joanna, as he tries to care for his stepson Sam (Thomas Sangster).

Nighy delivers one of his best performances with this role, generating great laughs via the physicality of his performance. Nighy's stance and mannerisms while singing his song (and his literally flinching upon hearing the song later on) really bring Billy Mack to life.

They got into a fist-fight in Bridget Jones' Diary, but it seems the rivalry continued off-screen for Hugh Grant and Colin Firth. Ok, so they might not be long-time nemeses, but Hugh made sure to poke fun at his Love Actually co-star and frenemy in quite a unique way.

The final lines of LOVE ACTUALLY, are the Prime Minister telling his new lover, who is fit but about whom fat jokes have been made throughout, "God, you weigh a lot," to which she replies, "Oh shut your face." That's it. That's the end of the movie.