Love Actually: 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.
Definitely, Maybe: Definitely, Maybe features Ryan
Reynolds stars as Will Hayes, a 30-something Manhattan dad in the midst
of a divorce when his 10 year-old daughter, Maya (Abigail Breslin),
starts to question him about his life before marriage. Maya wants to
know absolutely everything about how her parents met and fell in love.
Will's story begins in 1992, as a young, starry-eyed aspiring
politician who moves to New York from Wisconsin in order to work on the
Clinton campaign. For Maya, Will relives his past as an idealistic
young man learning the ins and outs of big city politics, and recounts
the history of his romantic relationships with three very different
women.
Will hopelessly attempts a "PG" version of his story for his daughter
and changes the names so Maya has to guess who is the woman her father
finally married. Is her mother Will's college sweetheart, the
dependable girl next-door Emily (Elizabeth Banks)? Is she his longtime
best friend and confidante, the apolitical April (Isla Fisher)? Or is
she the free-spirited but ambitious journalist Summer (Rachel Weisz)?
As Maya puts together the pieces of her dad's romantic puzzle, she
begins to understand that love is not so simple or easy. And as Will
tells her his tale, Maya helps him to understand that it's definitely
never too late to go back...and maybe even possible to find a happy
ending.
Bridget Jones's Diary: In the screen adaptation of
'Bridget Jones Diary', Helen Fielding's international best-selling
phenomenon, documentary filmmaker Sharon Maguire has managed a rare
feat: a film as captivating as the novel!
Bridget Jones (Renee Zellweger) is a pretty and neurotic
thirtysomething "singleton" (in her vernacular) who vows to take
control of her life after being humiliated by handsome, standoffish
barrister, Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) at her parents' New Year's party.
Determined to lose weight, and cut back on vices like wine, cigarettes,
and workaholic-alcoholic-misogynistic men, Bridget begins a diary to
chart her progress. Unfortunately, the P.R. executive hits a snag when
her boss, gorgeous cad Daniel (Hugh Grant) instigates a sexy e-mail
flirtation. Despite her tendency to bungle book launch parties, and any
situation involving the ever-disapproving Mark Darcy, Bridget's winning
combination of charm, vulnerability, and wit intrigues not only the
seductively dangerous Daniel, but also the arrogant barrister.
Featuring a note-perfect performance by Zellweger, a devilish one by
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