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Love Actually (2003)

★ 7.1 · 7,360 ratings on TMDB

Love actually is all around.

Love Actually poster★ 7.1

Eight very different couples deal with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London.

DirectorRichard Curtis
CastAlan Rickman, Andrew Lincoln, Bill Nighy, Colin Firth, Emma Thompson, Hugh Grant
GenresComedy, Drama, Romance
The emergence reading

Love Actually keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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