Movie Review: Love Actually (2003)
Synopsis: The subject of love is explored through the overlapping stories of eight different London couples as they prepare to celebrate Christmas. Who's in it? The movie stars Hugh Grant , Liam Neeson , Colin Firth , Emma Thompson and Alan Rickman. Review: My wife and I have both seen bits and pieces of this movie (sometimes in spoof form) and she had it in our library to watch. We finally got around to doing that tonight and, overall, I thought it was entertaining. Some of the love stories were compelling, such as the British Prime Minister (Grant) falling in love with one of his assistants ( Martine McCutcheon ) and a business executive (Rickman) needing to choose between his wife/mother of his kids (Thompson) and his alluring secretary ( Heike Makatsch ). A couple others, like the one involving a man ( Andrew Lincoln ) being in love with his best friend's new wife ( Keira Knightley ) and a writer (Firth) trying to overcome a language barrier with the housekeeper he love...