Follows the lives of eight very different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely and interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London, England.
The characters are falling in love, falling out of love, some are with right people, some are with the wrong people, some are looking to have an affair, some are in the period of mourning; a capsule summary of reality. Love begins and love ends. They flirt a lot. They are all flirting with love. At all ages and social levels, love is the theme. Romantic love and brotherly love is the hotchpotch through out the movie. Most of the movie is filmed in London, during Christmas and the characters all ended up at Heathrow airport a very uplifting note.
Written by Rosemea D.S. MacPherson
One of the working titles is "Love Actually is All Around" taken from The Troggs' song "Love is All Around", written by Troggs lead singer Reg Presley. An alternate version by Wet Wet Wet featured in
Four Weddings and a Funeral was at number one in the UK charts for 15 weeks in 1994, and Richard Curtis thought it would be amusing to start
Love Actually with the same song that had driven everyone to distraction nine years earlier. For this film it is reworked by Bill Nighy's character, who turns it into a Christmas song. "Christmas is All Around", the resulting tacky joke theme song, was actually released in Britain in hopes that it would be "Number 1 for Christmas 2003".
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Goofs
Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers):
When Karen is rehearsing the school Christmas play with her children, she says, "It was a starry night in ancient Jerusalem, and the baby Jesus was in his manger." She should have said "Bethlehem".
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"Here With Me"
By Pascal Gabriel (as Gabriel) / Paul Stathan (as Statham) / Dido (as Armstrong) Performed by Dido Courtesy of Cheeky Records/ BMG UK & Ireland Ltd
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