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Love Actually's flashy scenes might be well known - a kiss with the prime minister and a child running through an airport who somehow dodges security - but there is one gut-wrenching, heartbreaking scene that stops us in our tracks - Emma Thompson crying.
She plays Karen, the long suffering wife of the philandering Harry (played by the late Alan Rickman) and discovers he's bought a necklace for another woman. Cue the waterworks.
There's something about this scene that stops my heart every time I watch this movie.
Harry has been courting the office minx Mia (Heike Makatsch) who, much to our disgust, knows he's married, but still openly flirts with him.
It doesn't matter that I've seen this movie more times than I care to admit, the whole situation still makes me mad. Mia you're young and hot, just leave poor Harry and Karen alone and find someone your own age.
Despite my long-held grouchiness at Mia and Harry I still love Love Actually. This 2003 movie has become the ultimate festive movie for me and is a Christmas Eve must watch.
There are so many good moments and lines, right from the opening scenes at Heathrow Airport where we see a montage of emotional reunions.
It's then we hear Hugh Grant's first lines: "Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport".
There's so many smile-worthy moments - when Sarah (Laura Linney) finally hooks up with her office crush Karl (Rodrigo Santoro), when David (Hugh Grant) and Natalie (Martine McCutcheon) finally kiss, and what about when Jamie (Colin Firth) professes his love to Aurelia (Lucia Moniz).
Oh and who can forget Natalie's first words upon meeting David: "Thank you, sir. I did have an awful premonition that I was gonna f**k up on the first day. Oh, piss it!"
And that scene of David (Grant) dancing in his prime ministerial office to Jump (For My Love) by The Pointer Sisters before being caught being caught by his assistant is priceless.
There's an awful lot to love about this movie.
The film even had the then UK Prime Minister Tony Blair saying it was hard to live up to Grant's version of the UK PM.
When he faced criticism in 2005 for his dealings with the US, Blair said: "I know there's a bit of us that would like me to do a Hugh Grant in Love Actually and tell America where to get off. But the difference between a good film and real life is that in real life there's the next day, the next year, the next lifetime to contemplate the ruinous consequences of easy applause".
With the Christmas just around the corner and a swathe of festive movies available to watch, surely Love Actually has to rank up there as one of the best?
After all, in the words of Mark's (Andrew Lincoln) cardboard signs outside Juliet's (Keira Knightley) house as he tried to steal her heart, "to me, you are perfect". To me, Love Actually is kind of perfect.
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