Love Actually (2003)
Love Actually was the link movie connecting Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Bridget Jones's Diary.
Linked through Alan Rickman and Hugh Grant.
Both Alan Rickman and Hugh Grant appeared in Love Actually.
About Love Actually
"Love actually is all around."
Eight very different couples deal with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London.
Directed by Richard Curtis
Written by Richard Curtis
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The film received mixed reviews but earned a Golden Globe nomination for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy as noted in the article.
Soundtrack
Score by Craig Armstrong
The UK and US cuts differ: the UK uses Sugababes' 'Too Lost in You' for the office-party montage while the US replaces it with Kelly Clarkson's 'The Trouble with Love Is'; the UK end credits feature Girls Aloud's 'Jump (For My Love)' while the US uses 'Too Lost in You'. Several songs heard in the film did not appear on either soundtrack, including Bay City Rollers' 'Bye Bye Baby', Joni Mitchell's 'River', Justin Timberlake's 'Like I Love You', and Darlene Love's 'All Alone on Christmas.'
Movie trivia
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Richard Curtis initially wrote two distinct films—one each for Hugh Grant and Colin Firth—but merged them into a single ensemble piece inspired by Robert Altman and films such as Pulp Fiction, later giving it a Christmas framing.
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Curtis's original concept included fourteen different scenarios; four of those were cut from the final film, and two of the cut scenarios had already been filmed.
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A two-scene gay love storyline featuring Anne Reid as a headmistress and Frances de la Tour as her terminally ill partner was removed from the film, a loss Curtis said he regretted.
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The fictional music video for Billy Mack's 'Christmas Is All Around' was produced as a direct tribute to Robert Palmer's 1986 video 'Addicted to Love.
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Curtis described the film's editing as a catastrophe and said the production was rushed to meet the 2003 Christmas season, a process he likened to 'three-dimensional chess.
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Alan Rickman's reaction in the Rufus scene was reportedly genuine, the article saying he had been driven to the brink by the time constraints on set.
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