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its many forms and guises—love between siblings, love between parents and children, love between spouses, puppy love, platonic love, unrequited love, and sexual/romantic love.
The last gets the most screen time as director Richard Curtis delights in pairing off a number of his characters. The central romance is between the British Prime Minister (Hugh Grant) and a shapely assistant, Natalie (former U.K. soapstar Martine McCutcheon).
Other couplings involve writer Jamie (Colin Firth) and his Portuguese maid, Aurelia (Lucina Moniz); widower Daniel (Liam Neeson) and the mother of his step-son’s classmate; the PM’s sister, Jaren (Emma Thompson), and her husband, Harry (Alan Rickman); and Harry’s subordinate, Susan (Laura Linney), and a younger co-worker, Carl (Rodrigo Santoro).
Meanwhile, people like aging pop star Billy Mac (Bill Nighy) and a details-oriented department store clerk (Rowan Atkinson) are around to provide comic relief.
Writer Richard Curtis (“Four Weddings and a Funeral,” “Notting Hill”) makes his directorial debut
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