Love Actually (2003) – Rewatch

It’s a testament to the caliber of the actors here and their performances that a film that has as many problematic story lines as this one is still endearing. Alan Rickman cheating on his much superior wife with a predatory co-worker is the least of its issues. We have Hugh Grant as a Prime Minister hitting on a staff member whom for unknown reasons everyone calls fat. There’s Andrew Lincoln obsessively lusting after his best friend’s new wife, even at their wedding. Kris Marshall is such an aggressive creeper that he has to take his schtick across the pond. And yet I still get warm feelings from many of the other story lines and watch it almost every year, except Kris Marshall’s scenes. I fast-forward through that crap.