Love Actually has been called many things since its release in 2003: a feel-good comedy, a modern classic. Increasing appetite for political correctness over the last two decades has earned the film some unfavorable labels: misogynistic, toxic. But boycotts against the rom-com have, so far, been unsuccessful. Netflix brought the movie back to its platform this year for Christmas, a Los Angeles theater reopened its Love Actually Live musical on Wednesday, and some cinemas will show the movie this holiday season.
“You couldn’t make that movie today,” we often hear of films made just before the cancel-culture mob set out to ruin humor. Thanks to that mob, some great shows and films have been rewritten or squashed. The Office was forced to take down its “Diversity Day” episode from streaming platforms, Grease was so misogynistic it needed a spinoff musical series dedicated to the Pink Ladies (Paramount canceled the show the same summer it aired), and Gone with the Wind now has a warning label on HBO Max.
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