Love Actually/Wimbledon [DVD]

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Amazon.co.uk Review
bLove Actually/bp With no fewer than eight couples vying for our attention, iLove Actually/i is like the London Marathon of romantic comedies, and everybody wins. Having mastered the genre as the writer of iFour Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill,/i and iBridget Jones's Diary/i, it appears that first-time director Richard Curtis is just like his screenplays: he just wants to be loved, and he'll go to absurdly appealing lengths to win our affection. With iLove Actually/i, Curtis orchestrates a minor miracle of romantic choreography, guiding a brilliant cast of stars and newcomers as they careen toward love and holiday cheer in London, among them the Prime Minister (Hugh Grant) who's smitten with his caterer (Martine McCutcheon); a widower (Liam Neeson) whose young son nurses the ultimate schoolboy crush; a writer (Colin Firth) who falls for his Portuguese housekeeper; a devoted wife and mother (Emma Thompson) coping with her potentially unfaithful husband (Alan Rickman); and a lovelorn American (Laura Linney) who's desperately attracted to a colleague. There's more--too much more--as Curtis wraps his Christmas gift with enough happy endings to sweeten a dozen other movies. That he pulls it off so entertainingly is undeniably impressive; that he does it so shamelessly suggests that his writing fares better with other, less ingratiating directors. --iJeff Shannon/ipbWimbledon/bp Professional tennis makes an unlikely but surprisingly effective backdrop for a lively romantic comedy in iWimbledon/i. Peter Cort (Paul Bettany, iMaster and Commander/i), once ranked 11th in the world, has slipped to 119th and is heading into his last Wimbledon tournament when he runs into Lizzie Bradbury (Kirsten Dunst, iThe Virgin Suicides, Spider-Man/i), a rising star. The two strike up a whirlwind romance that gives his game new life--but she insists it's going to be nothing but a passing fling. Their affair heats up and Cort finds himself steadily rising through the competition while Lizzie stumbles... Of course, the ending is never really in doubt--but Bettany is a unique cinematic presence, pale and lithe, doubtful of life but also hungry for it. Thanks to him and the ever-engaging Dunst, iWimbledon/i is funnier, more suspenseful, and more touching that anyone might expect, turning a conventional flick into a genuine charmer. --iBret Fetzer/i

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