Love Actually: ADigitalMan’s Bloated and Flatulent Extended Edition
by AdigitalMan
This is a much deeper take on Love Actually, featuring lots of the deleted scenes and some slight alterations.
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original film name: Love Actually
film studio name: Universal
Date Original Film Was Released: 14 NOV 2003
Date Edit Was Released: 06 MAR 2006
Original Runtime: 135 minutes
New Runtime: 155 minutes
Amount of time Cut/Added: 20 minutes added
Cuts removed/added/extended:
- Alternate opening that morphs from a famine relief poster in Harry’s office to the scene when that poster was photographed, featuring two African women talking jovially about their husbands and the merits (or lack thereof) of a prospective son-in-law
- Daniel looking up pictures of Claudia Schiffer online and getting lured into a barrage of pornographic pop-up ads just as his father-in-law arrives unexpectedly.
- Extended sequences of how this allows Daniel and Sam to bond unexpectedly, and a peek into Sam’s room, where he has built a shrine to romance films.
- “Bad Bernard,” Harry and Karen’s disgruntled son, laments being cast as an angel in the Nativity play.
- Mia visits Mark’s gallery as he unveils his new photographs … and finds them to be much more than he bargained for.
- John and Judy discuss Christmas presents for their family and feel the first arrows of love.
- Harry and Karen visit Mark’s gallery and select it as the venue for Harry’s office party.
- Karen is called to visit Bad Bernard’s Headmistress about his Christmas essay.
- The Headmistress returns home and tells her ailing lover about Bernard’s essay, bringing some humor to her day.
- Billy Mack and Joe visit the suits at the record label and to Joe’s chagrin, Billy Mack tells them what he really thinks.
- Daniel and Sam lip synch to Scott Walker’s “Joanna”
- John and Judy’s grossly out-of-place arrival at the play is removed.
- Karen opens the play with a special note to the Headmistress.
- Post-credits scene bookends the Africa subplot where the daughter and son-in-law referenced in the alternate opening express genuine love in spite of difficult times.
DVD – Features:
- 155 minutes NTSC
- static menu
- Custom-edited musical suite of 3 Craig Armstrong musical cues from the film.
Conceptual improvements/advancements of edit over original:
Addresses some plot holes and gives more backstory to the characters.
Time needed for the edition: 5 days
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IMAGES:
cover art by ADigitalman (DOWNLOAD HERE).

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(3 votes, average: 8.33 out of 10, rated)
I am an extended edition buff and have a big collection of original ones and all the fanedits from here.
Many extended editions do not add anything to the movie, just add more useless scenes. I will rate the ones here.
Rating criteria: image quality, sound quality, 3x improvement, overall.
Image Quality: 10 of 10
Sound Quality: 10 of 10
Improvement: 2 of 10
Overall: 5 of 10
Review by col.hutty — July 30, 2009 @ 4:48 pm