: love actually :

is one of my favorite holiday movies. In fact, it may be one of my favorite all-time movies. I'm not positive that it can be defined as strictly a holiday movie, but I LOVE it!! I recently bought myself a copy and have been reminded just how much I really like it.

First of all, the cast is great: Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Liam Neeson, Keira Knightly...how can you go wrong?!?!?! Secondly, the soundtrack is amazing!! Dido, Maroon 5, Norah Jones, Eva Cassidy, Joni Mitchell, The Beach Boys...ahhhh...what more is there to say??

It is a story of relationships. Husband-wife, father-son, friendships, married with kids, widowed, new love, old love, finding love, giving up love, hopeful love, hopeless love...some of the stories end happily. Some of the stories end sadly. Very much like real life. And, they are so inexorably intertwined...a great work of modern cinema.

If you have seen it, re-watch it. If you haven't, rent it, buy it, but definitely watch it!