BLU-RAY REVIEW: LOVE ACTUALLY
10/13/2013

OVERVIEW: Relive the love this holiday season and take part in the decade-long phenomenon with Love Actually 10th Anniversary Edition! Hugh Grant (Bridget Jones’s films), Liam Neeson (Taken 2), Colin Firth (The King’s Speech), Laura Linney (Hyde Park on Hudson), Keira Knightley (Anna Karenina), Emma Thompson (Nanny McPhee) and Bill Nighy (About Time) are part of an illustrious all-star cast that charm and delight in this heartwarming romantic comedy about eight couples whose lives intersect shortly before the holidays. Brimming with early career appearances by Martin Freeman (The Hobbit), Andrew Lincoln (The Walking Dead), January Jones (Mad Men) and Thomas Sangster (“Game of Thrones”) Love Actually 10th Anniversary Edition has been newly restored to provide longtime fans and first-time viewers alike with a heartwarming holiday treat. Love Actually 10th Anniversary Edition will be available on October 15, 2013 on Blu-ray™ Combo Pack including Blu-ray, DVD and Digital HD from Universal Studios Home Entertainment with an exclusive collectible holiday ornament included with purchase. Also available on DVD with Digital.

SYNOPSIS: Written and directed by Academy Award® nominee Richard Curtis (About Time, Bridget Jones’s Diary and Notting Hill), comes Love Actually, the unforgettable holiday classic that has had audiences laughing, crying and hugging since it first premiered to U.S. audiences in 2003. Love, the fire that makes the world go round, is causing chaos for all. The lives and loves of these eight couples collide, mingle and climax again and again with romantic, hilarious and bittersweet consequences for anyone lucky (or unlucky) enough to be under love’s spell. The film’s hilariously unpredictable plot examines how love inspires experiences that are alternately exciting, unexpected and unequalled. This “star-studded, multi-plotlined movie” has become “one of the great Christmas movies” of all time (Entertainment Weekly).

BLU-RAY: The film is presented in widescreen in a 2.35:1 aspect ration preserving its theatrical format. The picture is just flawless. Not only the picture looks great in this release, also the sound it is good, a 5.1 Dolby Digital in English that provides a good complement to the picture. It also includes  English  and Spanish subtitles.

VIDEO:
Widescreen (2.35:1) 16x9

AUDIO:
DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, DVS - 2.0 Dolby Digital DTS (French)

Subtitles - English Spanish French

SPECIAL FEATURES:

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OVER 30 MINUTES OF DELETED SCENES with Introductions by Writer/Director Richard Curtis

THE STORYTELLERS (exclusive to Blu-ray)

THE MUSIC OF LOVE ACTUALLY with Introductions by Writer/Director Richard Curtis

BILLY MACK “CHRISTMAS IS ALL AROUND” MUSIC VIDEO (exclusive to Blu-ray)

KELLY CLARKSON “THE TROUBLE WITH LOVE IS” MUSIC VIDEO

FEATURE COMMENTARY with Writer/Director Richard Curtis and Actors Hugh Grant, Bill Nighy and Thomas Sangster