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Love Actually. Image shows from L to R: David, The Prime Minister (Hugh Grant), Natalie (Martine McCutcheon). Copyright: Working Title Films
Love Actually

Love Actually

  • 2003 film

Romantic comedy by Richard Curtis, charting a multitude of relationships across a Christmas period. Also features Alan Rickman, Olivia Olson, Bill Nighy, Colin Firth, Emma Thompson and more.

  • JustWatch Streaming rank this week: 1

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Press clippings

Richard Curtis on Christmas, Love Actually and criticism: 'You change with the times'

Over 20 years after Love Actually, Richard Curtis turns his attention to Christmas once more.

Adrian Lobb, The Big Issue, 7th December 2024

Bill Nighy: "After Love Actually, my pay quintupled"

The actor on his new film Joy, his ambition to play an action hero, and why he never tires of being recognised in the street.

Fiona Sturges, i Newspaper, 22nd November 2024

Love Actually and Saltburn memorabilia auctioned for War Child

An original shooting script of much-loved Christmas romcom Love Actually is among the lots up for grabs in an auction to support charity War Child.

Catherine Shoard, The Guardian, 25th April 2024

Major clue Love Actually sequel could finally be in the works

In pulse-quickening signs Love Actually could be getting a sequel 20 years on, Universal Pictures has filed paperwork protecting the name.

Bosses at the film firm, which made the original in 2003, lodged a trademark application days ago which specifically covered a new film and TV series.

Felicity Cross, The Sun, 10th January 2024

Love Actually at 20: Are we still in love with the controversial Christmas classic?

As washed-up rock star Billy Mack, played by Bill Nighy, finally nails the lyrics to the festive version of Love Is All Around (aptly renamed Christmas Is All Around), he realises how awful the song is. His manager, grinning, agrees that it is rubbish - "solid gold" rubbish. And so the scene is set for Love Actually: a two-hour whirlwind of improbable, questionable and downright daft scenes of love, propped up by a star-studded cast.

Yasmin Rufo, BBC, 18th December 2023

Love Actually: 20 Years Later

As an avid lover of Love Actually, I can appreciate the faults of the film and let's be honest, there are many.

Tess Bowen, Brig Newspaper, 15th December 2023

I starred in Love Actually - 20 years on I'm gigging in pubs but I still get royalties

Love Actually is arguably the UK's favourite festive movie. 20 years on from its release Junior Simpson, the actor who played the 'world's worst DJ', spills all.

Mel Fallowfield, The Sun, 9th December 2023

Love Actually: Is it a Christmas classic or an unwatchable schmaltz-fest?

Richard Curtis's festive film is flawed and charming, a somewhat ahistorical time capsule of a Blairite Britain that maybe never actually existed.

Lucy Fitzgerald, The Big Issue, 25th November 2023

In defence of Love Actually, 20 years on

Richard Curtis's classic Christmas romcom has been criticised as problematic and trashy. But it remains a staple of the British DVD cupboard because it makes us laugh - and feel something.

Emily Bootle, i Newspaper, 21st November 2023

Love Actually: one thing we really should cancel

Richard Curtis's nadir is turning 20. How has it become a festive classic?

Hadley Freeman, The Sunday Times, 12th November 2023

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