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The Holiday [2006]
from Universal Pictures Video
starring Cameron Diaz, Jack Black, Kate Winslet, Jude Law
directed by Nancy Meyers

Features:

• PAL
• Subtitled

Editorial Review:

As a pleasant dose of holiday cheer, The Holiday is a lovable love story with all the Christmas trimmings. In the capable hands of writer-director Nancy Meyers (making her first romantic comedy since Something's Gotta Give), it all begins when two successful yet unhappy women connect through a home-swapping website, and decide to trade houses for the Christmas holiday in a mutual effort to forget their man troubles. Iris (Kate Winslet) is a London-based journalist who lives in a picture-postcard cottage in Surrey, and Amanda (Cameron Diaz) owns a movie-trailer production company (leading her to cutely imagine most of her life as a "coming attraction") and lives in a posh mansion in Beverly Hills. Iris is heartbroken from unrequited love with a cad of a colleague (Rufus Sewell), and Amanda has just broken up with her cheating boyfriend (Edward Burns), so their home-swapping offers mutual downtime to reassess their love lives. This being a Nancy Meyers movie (where everything is fabulously decorated and romantic wish-fulfillment is virtually guaranteed), Amanda hooks up with Iris's charming brother Graham (Jude Law), and Iris is unexpectedly smitten with Miles (Jack Black), a super-nice film composer on the downside of a failing relationship. --Jeff Shannon

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• a great 'chick flick'
  I rented this movie one night when there was nothing else on the tv to watch. I loved it so much I bought it the very next day (from Amazon of course). It's heartwarming, funny and romantic. Not sure it's one for the boys to watch, although you never know.....

• Loved It
  I watched this film with my family, and I don't know about them, but I loved it. It is a film that sticks in your mind because it makes you feel warm inside. It gets the balance between comedy and romance perfectly and it is now one of my favourite films.

• Disappointing, boring, totally missable
  I don't normally write comments for dvds, but this film was such a huge disappointment that I felt I had to. The fantastic cast tempted me, but the film itself was totally without plot or humour, and went on far too long. Give it a miss!

• A bit long and uneventful...
  It's a movie to watch with your girlfriend, but to be honest it did nothing for me. At over two hours it's just too long, they could have easily chopped half an hour out of it. And Jack Black is wasted, he's a great comedy actor but plays his role dead straight; it could have been played by anyone.

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