Live the movie - Love Actually

When it comes to festive films to warm the cockles of your heart and give you that feel good factor there are few better than 2003’s Love Actually. It unashamedly embraces all that is potentially corny about the Christmas film (kids nativity plays, carol singing) and gives it the funny twist we’ve come to expect from Brit scribe Richard Curtis (Bridget Jones’s Diary, Notting Hill). Cleverly entwining nine plots with overlapping characters, the film bravely explores many of the various aspects of love from newly-wed bliss to unrequited passion, from a midlife fling to enduring platonic friendship and all with a sparkly holiday gloss. Never do the more realistic or sad stories bring down the mood, rather they bring into sharp focus the amount of love there is at this time of year and according to the Prime Minister (played by Hugh Grant): “If you look for it, I’ve got a sneaking suspicion love actually is all around.” So share in it by bringing Love Actually to life with our five inspirational ideas.