Industry Figure Tom Chappell

(Opening Monologue, delivered over shots of actual regular persons greeting one another at airports)

“Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion’s starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don’t see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it’s not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it’s always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends.

When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know, none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge–they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I’ve got a sneaky feeling you’ll find that..[titles appear simultaneously] Love, actually, is…all around.”

This is such a wonderful, sweet little movie, first brought to my attention by my son Sean. I don’t really have anything coherent to say about it, other than I love it so.

Here’s another one of my favorite moments, but I’d give this movie 11 stars out of a possible 10, so you know I’ve got a million of them:

Mom: So what’s this big news, then?
Daughter: [beaming] We’ve been given our parts in the Nativity play!
Mom: [gasps in horror and anticipation -- it's big news]
Daughter: [still beaming] …and I’m the lobster.
Mom: [badly taken aback] The lobster?
Daughter: Yeah.
Mom: In the Nativity play?
Daughter: [beaming even more] Yeah, *first* lobster.
Mom: There was more than one lobster present at the birth of Jesus?
Daughter: Duh!

Love Actually (DVD)