The movie "Simply Love" is a favorite of this holiday season for showing several stories that intersect on the eve of Christmas. When it was released in theaters in 2003, the success was huge: production grossed over $ 240 million worldwide, costing only $ 40 million.

And look, that cost was low if you stop to think about the number of famous people in the cast: Hugh Grant, Liam Neeson, Colin Firth, Laura Linney, Emma Thompson, Alan Rickmamn, Keira Knightley, Bill Nighy, Andrew Lincoln and Rowan Atkinson. - Even Brazilian Rodrigo Santoro plays a small role in the production.

However, have you noticed that although you want to embrace all kinds of love relationships, "Simply Love" is an extremely heterosexual movie? There is romance hindered by language, which is in the midlife crisis, the youthful, the inconsequential, the impossible, but all are focused on one man and one woman.

Movie "Simply Love" has sensational cast, but only showed heterosexual relationships

Plot with lesbian couple was cut

It turns out it was, yes, that there was a homosexual couple in the movie, only that their scenes were cut in the final edition (and maybe even a good thing, you will understand). Although the film shows some dramas such as betrayal (in the story involving Alan Rickmann and Emma Thompson) and impossible love (Laura Linney and Rodrigo Santoro), overall the feature film is quite upwards.

The cut scenes would break this positive vibe a bit, making the movie much more melancholy. They show the principal of the school where Emma Thompson's children study coming home to find his wife succumbing to cancer. They have a cute dialogue, where the principal says she read the writing of a student who would like to "see people's farts as a Christmas wish." Another time, she lies next to her wife in bed, just before she passes away. The scenes have been leaked on the internet for some time and have recently been shared again.

English actress Anne Reid plays the director, her partner is played by Frances de la Tour (who you may know as Madame Maxime from the Harry Potter saga). Both were, respectively, 68 and 59 at the time of the film's release. Director Richar Curtis said he was sorry to have to cut the scenes, as they show that anyone you meet on the street can have a complicated love story to tell. Watch the clipped scenes below (they start from 1 minute):

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