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1. Love Actuallyis Christmas-themedromantic comedy filmwritten and directed byRichard Curtis in 2003.2. The film expresses different aspects of love through ten separate stories involving a wide variety of individuals,and the story begins five weeks before Christmas.3. Most of the film was filmed on location in London.Plot: The film begins with a voiceover from David (Hugh Grant) commenting that whenever he gets gloomy with the state of the world he thinks about the arrivals terminal at Heathrow Airport, and the pure uncomplicated love felt as friends and families welcome their arriving loved ones. Davids voiceover also relates that all the messages left by the people who died on the9/11planes were messages of love and not hate. The film then tells the love stories of many people.Billy Mack and Joe: With the help of his longtime manager Joe ,rock and roll legend Billy Mack records a Christmas variation ofThe Troggs classic hit Love Is All Around. Although he thinks the record is terrible, Mack promotes the release in the hope it will become the Christmas number one single. The song does reach number one finally.And after briefly celebrating his victory at a party hosted by Sir Elton John, Billy discerns that Joe is in need of affection and suggests that he and Joe celebrate Christmas by getting drunk and watchingporn.Juliet, Peter, and Mark: Juliet and Peter get married in a lovely ceremony videotapedby Mark. Mark avoids seeing her so he will not have to show her his taped version of her wedding, but she stops by one day with a snack hoping to get him to warm to her. She confesses that she knows they are not close, but asks him to give her a chance. When asked to show her the tape, he feigns ignorance of where it is, but Juliet quickly finds it after only a brief search. She pops it in and at first is happy to see a good picture of her in her wedding dress as the professionals failed to do so. As the video continues, she realises it is focused entirely on her and it causes her to stop talking. Left in an uncomfortable silence, Mark can only blurt out that he acts that way for self-preservation before running out and leaving her alone. On Christmas Eve, the doorbell rings at Juliet and Peters house. She runs down and opens the door, only to find Mark, carrying a boom box playing Christmas songs and largecue cards. The first one tells her to tell her husband that its carol singers. One by one, the cards confess his love for her. Then he walks away. Juliet runs after him to give him a quick, innocent kiss and runs back inside.Jamie and Aurlia Writer Jamie is pushed to Juliet and Peters wedding by his girlfriend as she feigns illness. He returns between the ceremony and the reception to check on her. Finding his brother there, at first he believes his explanation, but the reality is revealed when she yells down to his brother that she wants to have sex a few more times before Jamie comes back. Crushed by this, Jamie withdraws to his French cottage where he meets Portuguese housekeeper Aurlia (Lcia Moniz) who speaks only her native tongue. Despite their inability to communicate, they have similar personalities and become attracted to each other. When Jamie returns to England, he realises he is in love with Aurlia and begins learning Portuguese. He returns to France to find her and ends up walking through town, gathering people as they walk to her job at a restaurant. In his broken Portuguese he declares his love for her and proposes. She responds, Thank you. That will be nice. Yes is being my answer in broken English as the crowd erupts in applause.Harry, Karen, and Mia:Harry is the managing director of a design agency; Mia is his new secretary. Harry is comfortably married to his wife, Karen, who stays home to raise their children. Harry becomes increasingly aroused by Mias overtly sexual comments and actions at the office and does nothing to dissuade her. At the company Christmas party held at Marks gallery, he not only inquires if Mark is her boyfriend, but dances closely with her. While at the shops, he calls Mia to find out what she wants for Christmas and ends up almost caught by his wife purchasing an expensive necklace from the jewellery department thanks to the salesman Rufus (Rowan Atkinson). Later on, Karen discovers the necklace in Harrys coat pocket and happily assumes it is a gift for her. When he hands her a similarly shaped box to open on Christmas Eve, she is heartbroken to find it is a Joni Mitchell CD instead and struggles to hide her pain from her husband and children. She realises that the necklace was for someone else and asks him what he would do if he was her and if the supposed affair is just sex or more than sex (love). When he sees the harm hes done to his wife, he is truly sorry and calls himself a fool. She responds that not only has he made a mockery of their marriage but of her and the way she chose to live her life.David and Natalie: Karens brother, David , is the recently electedPrime Minister. Natalie is a new junior member of the household staff at10 Downing Streetand from the moment they meet, there is a love spark that David continuously admonishes himself for. One day, while meeting with the U.S. President , they run into Natalie and the president makes some inappropriate comments to David about Natalies body. Later, David walks in on Natalie serving tea and biscuits to the president, and it appears that something untoward is happening. Natalie seems ashamed, but the President has a sly grin on his face. Due to this, when he gives his political speech, David is uncharacteristically assertive while taking a stand against the Presidents intimidating policies. Finding that his relationship with Natalie has become strained and a distraction, David has her moved to another job. However, he is spurred to action on Christmas Eve when he finds a Christmas card from Natalie declaring that she is his and no one elses. After a door to door search of her street, he comes across Mia, who informs him that Natalie lives next door. The entire family is on their way out the door to a multi-school Christmas play and he offers to drive them so he can talk to her. After Natalie sneaks him in to the school, he runs into his heartbroken sister who believes he is there for his niece and nephew. As the two try to keep from being seen and watch the show from backstage, they finally kiss. All their hiding was for nothing because as the curtain rises, they are seen kissing by everyone.Daniel, Sam: Daniel, Karens friend, mourns the recent death of his wife Joanna, as he tries to raise his stepson Sam alone. Sam has fallen for an American classmate, also named Joanna , and, after discussion with his stepfather, decides to learn the drums so that he can accompany her in the big finale for their schools Christmas pageant (the same one that Natalies nephew and Karen and Harrys children are in). After Sam feels that he missed his chance to make an impression on her, Daniel convinces Sam that he must go catch Joanna, who is returning to the US, at the airport that night and show her how he feels, lest he regret it for his whole life. Sam runs away from the airport security and says hi to Joanna, who then kisses him on the cheek. Sarah, Karl, and Michael: Sarah first appears at Juliet and Peters wedding, sitting next to her friend Jamie. She is an American who works at Harrys graphic design company and has been in love for years with the companys creative director, Karl. For unknown reasons they admire one another from afar, but neither is willing to make the first move. They finally connect at the Christmas party and he drives her home. They kiss but before more could occur, they are interrupted by hermentally illbrother, Michael, phoning from his residence in a mental care facility. Sarah and Karls evening tryst is aborted and Karl leaves. On Christmas Eve both are working late and, when Karl wishes her good night, he tries to say more but cannot and only wishes herMerry Christmas. As he leaves, Michael phones and she spends the night with him, sharing her Christmas scarf.Colin, Tony, and the American girls:After several blunders attempting to woo various English women, including Mia and Nancy, the caterer at Juliet and Peters wedding, Colin Frissell informs his friend Tony he plans to go to America and find love there, convinced that his Britishness will be an asset to him in a foreign country. Landing in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Colin meets Stacey ,Jeannie,and Carol-Anne, three stunningly attractive women who fall for hisBasildonaccent and invite him to stay at their home, where they are joined by roommate Harriet.John and Judy: John and Judy are professional body doubles for films. They meet for thesex scenesin a film for which Tony is a production assistant. John tells Judy that It is nice to have someone he can just chat to. While the two are perfectly comfortable being naked and simulating sex on-set, they are shy and tentative off-set. Carefully pursuing a relationship, they attend the Christmas pageant (involving David and Natalie, Harry and Karens children, Daniel and Sam, et al.) at the local school with Johns brother.Rufus: Rufus, played byRowan Atkinson, is the jewellery salesman, whose obsessive attention to gift-wrapping nearly results in Harry being caught buying a necklace for Mia by Karen. Also, it is his distraction of staff at the airport which allows Sam to sneak through to see Joanna. In the director and cast commentary, it is revealed that Rufus was originally supposed to be a Christmas angel; however, this was dropped from the final script.Epilogue: Theepilogueis set one month