FRIDAY 12/13: Love Actually Is Holiday Movie at Palace Theatre

Friday, December 13, is Arts Enter’s Christmas Edition of Food, Friends and Film, and folks are encouraged to bring their favorite holiday treats to share with others at the Palace Theatre. Hot Toddy and Irish Coffee recipes are also encouraged!

Cocktail Hour is 7:30-8 p.m. (cash bar). The movie begins at 8 p.m. — Love Actually. Suggested donation is $10.

If you have not seen this romantic holiday movie then, you are in for a treat! All of London is in love — or longing to be — in Four Weddings and a Funeral writer Richard Curtis’ first directorial effort. Billed as “the ultimate romantic comedy,” Love Actually involves more than a dozen main characters, each weaving his or her way into another’s heart over the course of one particularly eventful Christmas.

The seemingly perfect wedding of Juliet (Keira Knightley) and Peter (Chiwetel Ejiofor) brings many of the principals together, including heartsick best man Mark (Andrew Lincoln), who harbors a very unrequited crush on Juliet.

There’s also recent widower Daniel (Liam Neeson), trying to help his lonely stepson Sam (Thomas Sangster) express his true feelings to a classmate. Across town, devoted working mother Karen (Emma Thompson) tries to rekindle the passion of her husband, Harry (Alan Rickman), who secretly pines for a young colleague of his. In the same office, the lonely Sarah (Laura Linney) not-so-secretly pines for a man just a few desks away (Rodrigo Santoro), who returns her affections but may not be able to dissuade her neuroses. Providing the unofficial soundtrack for all of the couples is an aging rocker (Bill Nighy) who just wants to cash in — but even he might find a meaningful relationship in the most unlikely of places.

This is a fun, romantic film at the most romantic venue in Cape Charles. Make it a holiday date night, or just come out enjoy some holiday cheer with good friends!