Love Actually

(15)

Love actually is all around.

From the new bachelor Prime Minister (Hugh Grant) instantly falling in love with a refreshingly real member of the staff (Martine McCutcheon) moments after entering 10 Downing Street...

To a writer (Colin Firth) escaping to the south of France to nurse his re-broken heart who finds love in a lake...

From a comfortably married woman (Emma Thompson) suspecting that her husband (Alan Rickman) is slipping away...

To a new bride (Keira Knightley) mistaking the distance of her husband's best friend for something it's not...

From a schoolboy seeking to win the attention of the most unattainable girl in school...

To a widowed stepfather (Liam Neeson) trying to connect with a son he suddenly barely knows...

From a lovelorn junior manager (Laura Linney) seizing a chance with her long-tended, unspoken office crush...

To an ageing "seen it all, remember very little of it" rock star (Bill Nighy) jonesing for an end-of-career comeback in his own uncompromising way...

Love, the equal-opportunity mischief-maker, is causing chaos for all. These London lives and loves collide, mingle and climax on Christmas Eve-again and again and again-with romantic, hilarious and bittersweet consequences for anyone lucky (or unlucky) enough to be under love's spell.

I thoroughly enjoyed this movie. As pure entertainment, it succeeds brilliantly. What a feel-good presentation!