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** Another one, Daniel's first scene is his wife's funeral, and there's a joke about him having a crush on Claudia Schiffer. He spends the rest of the movie trying to help his stepson Sam win over the girl he loves, which brings them to the school play, where he meets a woman played by...Claudia Schiffer.
* [[British Accents]]: Colin is convinced that having one will make him devastatingly hot in America.
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** [[Truth in Television]], trust me.
* [[Bury Your Gays]]: Only in deleted scenes. The female teacher of one of Karen and Harry's kids is shown to have a female lover who dies in a later deleted scene.
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* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: Billy Mack and Joe. Although they don't realize how much they mean to each other until the end.
* [[Hide Your Lesbians|Hide Your Gays]]: The film manages to depict and celebrate every form of human relationship and connection, except one. Richard Curtis has said that an early draft of the screenplay had a subplot involving two schoolgirls attracted to each other, and a subplot involving the principal of the school and her [[Ill Girl|dying female partner]] that was filmed but not included in the final cut is mentioned above as an application of [[Bury Your Gays]]. The treatment of queer characters in the Richard Curtis ouevre makes interesting food for thought.
* [[Homage Shot]]: [[Word of God]] has stated the scene where {{spoiler|Mark reveals that he's in love with Juliet by showing her his tape of her wedding, which is entirely made up of shots of her}} is a homage to the ending of [[Cinema Paradiso]].▼
* [[Hollywood Pudgy]]: Natalie is constantly ragged on (pretty much by everyone but David) for being a fat cow. She isn't.
** Possibly a parody, or at least a lampshading, as David is just as puzzled and annoyed by this as presumably everyone in the audience was.
*** It definitely seems like Natalie is a parody of [[Hollywood Homely]].
*** Several years before the film was made, the British media was obsessed with Martine McCutcheon's weight. There was a public backlash over it due to people being utterly baffled by the media's claim that she was fat. This storyline feels like a parody of that event, with the rest of the cast reflecting the media attitude and the prime minister reflecting the public's reaction to it.
▲* [[Homage Shot]]: [[Word of God]] has stated the scene where {{spoiler|Mark reveals that he's in love with Juliet by showing her his tape of her wedding, which is entirely made up of shots of her}} is a homage to the ending of [[Cinema Paradiso]].
* [[Hyperlink Story]]
* [[I Didn't Mean to Turn You On]]: Juliet to Mark
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