"Love actually is all around."
Eight very different couples deal with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London.
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The people behind it
Hugh Grant
The Prime Minister
Alan Rickman
Harry
Emma Thompson
Karen
Liam Neeson
Daniel
Martine McCutcheon
Natalie
Colin Firth
Jamie Bennett
Bill Nighy
Billy Mack
Laura Linney
Sarah
Lúcia Moniz
Aurelia
Andrew Lincoln
Mark
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