Love Actually

242 Pages·2003·13.76 MB·English

by  Richard Curtis

From the writer of Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill
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Photographs by Peter Mountain
Unforgettable, ungettable, regrettable, ecstatic,
exciting, unexpected, unwelcome, inconvenient,
inexplicable, inelegant, unequalled...
love
actually is all around.
Set m contemporary London just before Christmas, weaving together a series
of touching and hilarious stories. Love Actually is the new romantic comedy from
Academy Award® nominee Richard Curtis. From a newly elected bachelor prime
minister to a heartbroken writer, a widowed stepfather to his lovesick stepson, and
an aging rock star to a straying husband—love is causing chaos for all.
The book goes behind the scenes with the all-star cast, including Alan Rickman,
Bill Nighy, Colin Firth. Emma Thompson, Hugh Grant. Laura Linney, Liam Neeson,
Martine McCutcheon. Rowan Atkinson, and Keira Knightley. With an introduction by
Richard Curtis, the full screenplay, deleted scenes, over 150 full-color photographs
from the movie, exclusive black-and-white photos from the production, a "love
questionnaire" filled out by the cast, and much more, this is actually a book for anyone
who loved Love Actually.
Richard Curtis's previous screenplays include The Tall Guy. Four Weddings
and a Funeral, and Notting Hill, and he was the cowriter of the screenplays for
Bean and Bridget Jones's Diary.
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LOVE ACTUALLY. Copyright © 2003 by Richard Curtis. All rights reserved.
Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be used
or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission
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Cover art and interior color photographs from Love Actually © 2003 WT
Venture LLC. Licensed by Universal Studios Licensing LLLP. All rights
reserved, (corrected copyright notice)
Black and white photographs copyright © 2003 by Peter Mountain
Drawings and watercolors copyright © 2003 by Charlie Mackesy
"Love Is All Around." by Reg Presley. Copyright © 1967 Universal-Songs of
PolyGram International, Inc. on behalf of Dick James Music Ltd. (BMI) All
rights reserved. Used by permission.
Tuff choir supplied by Tuff The Session Agency, Ltd
"In My Place" composed by Berryman/Buckland/Champion/Martin
Published by BMG Music Publishing Ltd. Used by permission
Designed by Smith & Gilmour, UK
ISBN 0-312-31849-9
First published in Great Britain by Michael Joseph, an imprint of Penguin
Books
First St. Martin's Griffin Edition: December 2003
This book is dedicated to my darling sister Belinda -
and to all the people we filmed at Heathrow who spontaneously
said 'yes' and are now caught on film kissing for ever.

Contents
Introduction by Richard Curtis 1
Film Family Tree 6
Love Actually-The Screenplay 9
'Christmas Is All Around' - The Lyrics 158
Deleted Scenes - The Ones That Didn't Make It 160
Behind the Scenes 174
Love Actually-The Quiz 196
Love Questionnaires 199
Some Strange Posters 218
Cast and Crew 223
And Finally... 230