Love Actually – Best of Dare Daniel Rerun 8 In this week’s holiday-themed Best of Dare Daniel, your hosts (and a special guest) revisit the horndog treacle of Love Actually. LOVE ACTUALLY FACTS AND FIGURES U.S. theatrical release date: Nov. 7, 2003 Domestic box office: $59.7 million (production budget: $40-45 million) Critic scores: 64 on Rotten Tomatoes; 55 on Metacritic This week’s darer: Heather Smith Why did Heather dare Daniel and Corky to watch Love Actually? “It’s that magical time of year when every person checks into Facebook to share they are watching Love Actually.  A true turd-fest full if cringe-y dialogue, vapid, horrible characters, and one of the more embarrassing dance scenes I can recall.  It bewilders me that this movie has sustained such love through the years.  It’s like Lifetime wrote a Christmas movie but could afford better actors.  Merry Christmas!” IMDB synopsis: “Follows the lives of eight very different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London, England.” This week’s referenced movies: Bula Quo!; God’s Not Dead; Renaissance Man; Battlefield: Earth; Stay Hungry; Pumping Iron; Four Weddings and a Funeral; Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers; Pulp Fiction; An American Werewolf in Paris; The Music Man; Heaven’s Gate; the Bridget Jones movies; Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978); The Long Good Friday; Die Hard; The Princess Bride; Rear Window; Driller Killer; Titanic (1997); Ghostbusters (1984); Say Anything; Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; Bugsy Malone; The Quiet Man Ratings for Love Actually: Daniel – Dare; Corky – Double Dare; Gav – Double Dare RELATED CLIPS Original theatrical trailer for Love Actually “To me you are perfect” The Dancing Prime Minister Follow Dare Daniel on Facebook and Instagram.  Be sure to listen, rate, review and subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, PlayerFM, Listen Notes, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Castbox and more.  New episodes come out every other Tuesday! Read more of Daniel’s movie reviews at Dare Daniel and Rotten Tomatoes.