Story Overview

Love Actually is a warm, ensemble-driven romantic comedy that interweaves ten distinct love stories unfolding in contemporary London during the weeks leading up to Christmas.

The film explores love in its many forms—romantic, unrequited, forbidden, enduring, and fleeting—through characters from vastly different walks of life. From a fading rock star attempting an unlikely comeback, to the British Prime Minister unexpectedly falling for a member of his household staff, each storyline reflects a different emotional shade of love.

Young and old, married couples and secret admirers, newlyweds and heartbroken friends all collide in a city buzzing with holiday anticipation. Some relationships are playful and hopeful, others painful and bittersweet, yet all are bound by the universal desire to be loved and understood.

Balancing humor with emotional honesty, Love Actually presents love as messy, irrational, and often unpredictable—but ultimately powerful enough to connect lives in surprising ways. Set against a festive backdrop, the film celebrates the idea that love, in all its imperfect forms, truly is everywhere.

Theatrical trailer of "Love Actually" by Richard Curtis. Starring Hugh Grant, Martine McCutcheon, Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Bill Nighy, Gregor Fisher, Rory MacGregor, Colin Firth, Sienna Guillory, Emma Thompson, Lulu Popplewell, Kris Marshall, Heike Makatsch, Martin Freeman, Joanna Page, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Andrew Lincoln, Keira Knightley, Nina Sosanya, Abdul Salis, Edward Hardwicke, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Alan Rickman, Rodrigo Santoro, Brian Bovell, Anthony McPartlin, Declan Donnelly, Elisabeth Margoni, Billy Bob Thornton, Rowan Atkinson, Will Wadham.