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5 unusual facts about Richard Curtis


Finally in Love

Robert Copsey of Digital Spy gave the song three out of five stars, he described it as "a slick R&B ballad with lyrics as sentimental as the ending of a Richard Curtis film".

Laurence Dunmore

He left the course before completion to work with Howard Brown working for clients such as Richard Curtis (through Faber & Faber), Goldcrest Films and the Post Office, prior to joining Pentagram Design, when Brown became a partner in 1987.

Matthew Freud

Matthew Freud, along with his sister Emma Freud and brother-in-law Richard Curtis, sit on the board of Trustees for Comic Relief, which is aired every second year on the BBC as a nationwide charity event.

Skinhead Hamlet

The Skinhead Hamlet is a short parody of the play Hamlet by Richard Curtis, a co-author of Blackadder.

Tightrope Pictures

The company has been responsible for several high-profile drama productions for the BBC, including the Richard Curtis-written The Girl in the Café (BBC One, 2005) and an adaptation of William Golding's novel To the Ends of the Earth (BBC Two, 2005).


Bernard and the Genie

Written by comedy writer Richard Curtis, this comic fantasy takes its inspiration from The Book of One Thousand and One Nights and follows Alan Cumming as art dealer Bernard Bottle who is not having a good day.

Esio Trot

A 90-minute film adaptation of Esio Trot, written by Richard Curtis and Paul Mayhew-Archer, starring Dustin Hoffman and Judi Dench as Mr. Hoppy and Mrs. Silver respectively, will begin filming in London in spring 2014, for release sometime thereafter.

La Mariée

According to director Roger Michell in an article in Entertainment Weekly, the painting was chosen because screenwriter Richard Curtis was a fan of Chagall's work, and because La Mariée "depicts a yearning for something that's lost."

Too Lost in You

"Too Lost in You" is prominently featured in the soundtrack to the 2003 film Love Actually, and was chosen for the film specifically by its director Richard Curtis.


see also

The Tall Guy

In a 2003 mid-career retrospective about Richard Curtis, The Guardian described the film as being "patronised in one sense by critics while not patronised in the other by audiences.".