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Rating: 10/10 (30 November 2003)

Richard Curtis is now my writing hero. The film was touching, frank, sweet, and daring all at the same time. Daring, you ask. Who else would have the courage to make the sweetest, most innocent love story the one between the two nude stand-ins? Who else would have the courage to open the film with a voice over that pondered the cell phone calls from the September 11 aircraft passengers, and suggested that surely none of them were calling with messages of hate, but of love? That took guts, friends...
Although the film has its share of casual profanity (no more so than passes between friends in many walks of life) and the aforementioned nudity, "Love, Actually" is the antidote to real garbage like "Kill Bill" (with its lovingly crafted scenes of graphic brutality, rapes of coma victims, and the murder of a mother in front of her child).
Do yourself a favor. Go see "Love, Actually." Your day will be better for it.