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DVD Love Actually (Full Screen 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
Review(s): DVD Love Actually (Full Screen Edition)
Really a great movie.
About once every 2 years I'll go see a movie that my girlfriend drags me to. I've sat through eye bleeders like Legally Blonde, Runaway Bride, Serendipity and How The Grinch Stole Christmas. I've even endured brain smashers like Maid In Manhattan, The Wedding Planner and Miss Congeniality! So, needless to say when she told me she wanted to go see a movie called Love Actually I thought, "Oh, I wonder what new "hot" and "super-talented" "actress" is going to be the star of this turd." I had it all wrong! I left the theatre happy, feeling like I got my money's worth. The story isn't your token man/woman falls in love with man/woman, something bad happens, they overcome it and everything turns out great in the end. Although things turn out great in the end of this movie there are so many different stories happening that you won't get bored at all. I loved the casting too, alot of the people in this film are in other films I love! Liam Neeson in Darkman, Martin Freeman in The Office, Bill Nighy in Shaun Of The Dead, Alan Rickman in Die Hard...well, I don't really love Die Hard but I do like Rickman alot...and even though I've never liked Hugh Grant he is good in this movie.
So, after seeing this movie once in the theatre and about 8 times on DVD I can assure you that you'll like this movie. It sure as heck beats Miss Congeniality! It may even become one of those movies that you HAVE to watch when Christmas rolls around, I know it's become one of those Christmas classics for me.
Truly Romantic Classic - Less is More
This is such a well-written piece on romantic relationships. Its success lie in its wide appeal. I ask my friends and all have their own favorite characters and moments in the movie. I watched it 3 times and I find my favorite scenes change too. There is the writer (Colin Firth)'s proposal to his Portugese maid. Not to forget the hilarious Hugh Grant performing his dance sequence. Keira Knightly with her secret admirer opening his heart to her at the doorstep can be overwheming. Not to mention the modern London feel throughout the movie.
These wonderful short stories are so fragmented when I watched it the first time there is a longing for more. It allows me to repeat watching the movie again with nice surprises here and there. The fact that each piece is so short allows the audience to feel rather than being told the story.
This is one of the few romantic classics in recent years that arouses such warm and deep feelings from a wide range of audience - young and old. An excellent combo of romantic moments that can truly stand the test of time.
Director's Commentary better than movie
I find the Commentary track by director Richard Curtis and actors Hugh Grant, Bill Nighy, and Thomas Sangster to be as or more entertaining than the movie itself. One actor shows up late to the recording then mocks any mention or appearance by one of his fellow actors. Wonderful catty stuff.
Jane Austen's classic novel of 1813, Pride and Prejudice, still wins the hearts of countless schoolgirls with its romantic story of Elizabeth Bennet and her Mr. Darcy. Now, the 1996 BBC miniseries is winning over adults, with its faithful adaptation, gorgeous scenery, and superb acting. The essence of the story is the antagonism between Mr. Darcy, a wealthy single man who believes Elizabeth to be beneath him, and Elizabeth, who upon being insulted at a dance by the aloof Darcy refuses to associate with him in any manner. Austen evokes incredible tension with the wit and flirtation of the two characters, and director Simon Langton (who also directed Upstairs Downstairs) successfully translates the repartee and conflict in this six-hour miniseries. Dialogue, for the most part,... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Simon Langton DVD Release Date: Released the 25 September 2001 Usually ships in 24 hours
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A box-office smash in England, About a Boy went on to charm the world as another fine adaptation (following High Fidelity) of a popular Nick Hornby novel. While High Fidelity transplanted its London charm to Chicago, this irresistible comedy was directed by Americans Chris and Paul Weitz (American Pie) with its British pedigree intact. Better yet, Hugh Grant is perfectly cast as Will, a self-absorbed trust-fund slacker who tries to improve his romantic odds by preying on desperate single mothers. His cynical strategy backfires when he recruits the misfit son (Nicholas Hoult) of a suicidal mother (Toni Collette) to pose as his own son, thus proving his parental prowess to his latest single-mom target (Rachel Weisz). The kid has a warming effect on this ultimate... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Hugh Grant Director(s): Paul Weitz - Chris Weitz DVD Release Date: Released the 14 January 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Literary adaptations just don't get any better than director Joe Wright's 2005 version of Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice. The key word here is adaptation, because Wright and gifted screenwriter Deborah Moggach have taken liberties with Austen's classic novel that purists may find objectionable, but in this exquisite film their artistic decisions are entirely justified and exceptionally well executed. It's a more rural England that we see here, circa 1790 (as opposed to Austen's early 19th century), in which Elizabeth Bennet (Keira Knightley) is one of several sisters primed for marriage, with an anxious mother (Brenda Blethyn) only too desperate to see her daughters paired off with the finest, richest husbands available. Elizabeth is strong-willed and opinionated, but her... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Joe Wright (IV) DVD Release Date: Released the 28 February 2006 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Featuring a blowzy, winningly inept size-12 heroine, Bridget Jones's Diary is a fetching adaptation of Helen Fielding's runaway bestseller, grittier than Ally McBeal but sweeter than Sex and the City. The normally sylphlike Renée Zellweger (Nurse Betty, Me, Myself and Irene) wolfed pasta to gain poundage to play "singleton" Bridget, a London-based publicist who divides her free time between binge eating in front of the TV, downing Chardonnay with her friends, and updating the diary in which she records her negligible weight fluctuations and romantic misadventures of the year. Things start off badly at Christmas when her mother tries to set her up with seemingly standoffish lawyer Mark Darcy (Colin Firth), whom Bridget accidentally overhears... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Sharon Maguire DVD Release Date: Released the 09 November 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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