The Holiday (DVD)

I went to see the romantic comedy The Holiday with fairly low expectations as the genre is very hit or miss for me. Whenever I see a trailer for a new "rom-com" as they are sometimes called nowadays, my heart does a simultaneous leap and lurch movement. I love many films that have made this Hollywood genre become such a staple in recent years. But for every Sleepless in Seattle or Bridget Jones' Diary, there is some wishy-washy yawn fest with Goldie ...
...I'm finicky with regards to the manner in which my heartstrings are tugged and my funny bone simultaneously tingled. Meg Ryan, yes, Julia Roberts, no thanks. And so I ventured into this film on a mother daughter attempt to avoid Christmas shopping madness with some trepidation. The film is set up with the two parallel female leads, Kate Winslet and Cameron Diaz. Kate plays Iris, a newspaper writer in London. She is shown writing the marriage announcements ...

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When I first saw the trailers for "The Holiday" prior to its cinema release in 2006, I actually had just read a book called "Lifeswap" by Jane Green, about two women on either side of the Atlantic who swapped houses and lives - I thought this film was an adaptation of that book. After reading a couple of reviews of it at the time, I quickly realised it wasn't, but the premise of it was similar enough to intrigue me further, as well as the fact that ...
...all, it is set over the Christmas period, and has "feel good" and "cheesy" stamped all over it. You know it all has to work out in the end - this is Hollywood after all, how often do you get an unhappy ending? - but it is the events that unfold and the progression of the characters that keeps you watching all the same. Iris (Kate Winslet) and Amanda (Cameron Diaz) couldn't be more different - one is an English journalist suffering from the affliction ...

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...watch them but only on the odd occasion and there has to really be something appealing about them. So it was strange when I sat down to watch The Holiday on Sunday night that I was doing it purely on the recommendation of my ex girlfriend. As we’d had pretty similar taste in movies I thought there was a good chance I would enjoy The Holiday. It never really appealed to me while it was at the cinema but I decided that I wanted something simple to ...
...Arthur (Eli Wallach) and along the way starts to also see Amanda’s ex partner’s best friend, Miles (Jack Black). From there the film explores the relationships in both parts of the world. While it’s not my normal genre of films I felt that The Holiday was a reasonable film that did exactly what it was designed to do. While it isn’t the best romantic comedy I’ve ever seen it works quite well and other than some very silly moments, which seem to be ...

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...a British newspaper, mainly covering the weddings of the famous and up and coming. With Christmas coming around she is busy and her ex lovers, whom she still loves and hasn't moved on from, upcoming marriage to a co worker doesn't help. Living alone in the English countryside encourages her to get on the internet and look for vacation hotshots were she can get away and recover. Whilst searching she finds out about a house exchange programme, an idea ...
...seemingly perfect life she feels the need to get away from her surroundings to 'eat carbs without wanting to kill herself' and get away from the men in her life. What would you guess? She goes to look for a peaceful place to spend her holiday season. Fortunately Iris and Amana get to talking over the internet and agree to switch houses.... on the agreement that there are no men in their local areas. But as Christmas arrives and the girls learn to ...

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The Holiday (2006) All this waiting around to go into labour has to be spent doing something, and the something I've spent most of it doing (not including sleeping, you understand, which I have become quite amazingly good at doing at all the wring times of day…) is watching films. The latest in this long line of consumed movies is this rather romantic, humorous, and quite, well, seasonal, in a Christmassie sort of way film which I've wanted to see ...
...really don't care what's on the goggle box. That said, I am 4 days away from my official due date and quite frankly, turkey with all the trimmings PLUS pudding has nothing on how HUGE I feel! Who's in it? Kate Winslet plays Iris, a newspaper journalist sort who is deeply in love with the ex who cheated on her and can't seem to snap out of being nice to him, despite him having moved on considerably faster than the average Boeing 747. Cameron Diaz ...

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The Holiday PLOT Two women, lives in crisis thanks to the men in them, decide to swap homes for the Christmas period. Each then go on to meet a different, local man and develop varying degrees of attraction. Iris (Kate Winslet) is a reporter for the Telegraph. She lives in a little cottage, in a tiny hamlet, in Surrey - it's a very stereotypical looking English cottage in the middle of English country side and a nearby small village. If it wasn't ...
...lover Jasper in England. (Cue the 'this house is so big' scene that was inevitable) Over the next two weeks she meets several of the locals, developing a great friendship with an old man, Arthur Abbott (Eli Wallach). It turns out he's more than just a frail old man, he used to be a movie author in the time when Hollywood was about more than just Box Office ratings. He teaches her a lot, and together they prepare him for an award ceremony in his honour. ...

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...lives in Los Angeles, is the owner of a firm that edits film trailers and is very successful at it. Unfortunately, her love life isn't quite so successful and just before Christmas, she splits up with her live-in boyfriend after she finds he has been cheating on her. Iris, a journalist, has just discovered that the love of her life is engaged to be married to someone else. By chance, Iris, who has a beautiful cottage in rural Sussex, has registered ...
...needs a holiday, contacts her. The two girls decide to spend two weeks in each other's homes. Shortly Amanda's arrival, Iris's brother Graham pays a visit; the two are immediately attracted and begin what should be a holiday romance. On the other side of the Atlantic, Iris befriends an elderly former Hollywood screenwriter called Arthur, as well as Miles, a friend of Amanda's. With the help of the the two men, she manages to come to terms with her ...

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...on holiday now. I took the kids to my parents who live about 1,600 km away from us and we spend now 3 weeks here then go back. My parents enjoy spending a lot of time with them so I can relax now. It seemed so convenient to watch The Holiday that I watched it. It was a very good film I’m still thinking about some plots of it. I think this means that it is a great film. The Holiday was directed by Nancy Meyers. She is an American director, producer ...
...as What Women Want, The Parent Trap (still on my to watch list), Something’s Gotta Give (which is one of my favourite movies) and It’s Complicated (I will watch it). The film was made in 2006 and luckily it s not a Christmas comedy like Home Alone which is a good film but I’m bored to watch the 100th similar Christmas film. The classification is 12 years and older. The running time is 130 minutes. It is quite long but I enjoyed it from the beginning ...

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...from their romantic strife for the festive season. But little do they know that they will each meet someone new. Iris begins a friendship with amiable film score composer Miles, while Amanda finds herself in a clinch with Iris' dashing brother Graham. Writer-director Nancy Meyers knows a thing or two about romantic comedies, having previously helmed "What Women Want" and "Something's Gotta Give". She understands her core chick flick audience and ...
...being unbearably saccharine. Despite all the trials and tribulations, there is also the obligatory happy ending that proves previously single women over thirty can live happily every after. The plot strand where Iris befriends an elderly screenwriter is extraneous, if enjoyable. But so many protagonists are involved in the film industry that it sometimes feels like Meyers is seeking validation for her career choice. The filmmaking aspects they discuss ...

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...to see it based upon the trailer. While waiting for the Devil Wears Prada to start, this trailer was on, I thought it looked great, so when it came out just after Christmas I persuaded my Mum to come along to the cinema with me. The plot is really unique, two strangers experiencing heartache in their respective homes decide to swap home and countries over the Christmas period. Amanda is a highly successful executive who makes movie trailers, living ...
...so heads half away across the world to England. Flying over to Amanda’s home after chatting on the internet, is Iris. For years she has been hopelessly in love with her colleague, when he announces his engagement she realises that it really is over. Depression sets in and she decides that a change of scenery is the perfect idea. In England, Amanda finds the small cottage very different to her sunny LA mansion and she isn’t sure if she’ll stay. A ...

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***** The Film ***** Amanda Woods appears on the surface to be very successful, she is the owner of an advertising company in California which makes movie trailers and has a lovely luxury house but her personal life is falling apart. She discovers her boyfriend is cheating on her and she throws him out of the house and sets about trying to find somewhere to escape for Christmas, to leave the country and get away from men. Meanwhile Iris Simpkins ...
...the wedding column is having man trouble too. Her trouble is she is besotted with a man who does not love her. Things get a lot worse when at the work Christmas party she discovers he is getting married to another colleague. She too decides she needs to escape for a while and logs on to the internet to a house swap site and that is where she discovers Amanda. They decide to take a break from their troubles and get away from the men in their lives ...

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...film! I would say that the combination of Kate Winslet and Cameron Diaz’s flawless acting, coupled with fantastic background music and a slight brush at a Christmasy theme, all serve into making this movie a real delight to watch. When I first read the summary of this film, I quite frankly did not feel like renting the DVD immediately. I mean, a film about two women who house-swap in order to forget their heartbreaks sounds quite depressing and far ...
...I got around to watching The Holiday. It is truly unique in its genre, a pleasant bland of Holiday, Romantic and Friendship genre. The story is about Iris and Amanda, two women who couldn’t be more different. Iris is an overly emotional woman who lives in a cozy cottage in England. She is desperately in love with an engaged man- and the latter does nothing to discourage her. Amanda on the other hand, is a feisty independent woman who lives in a luxurious ...

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The Holiday is a chick flick type film although it is not quite your normal chick flick. It is based around the story of two girls , Amanda, played by Cameron Diaz and Iris played by Kate Winslet. Amanda is a film trailer producer who has just broke up with her boyfriend, she lives in LA. Iris lives in Surrey in a little cottage and is a writer for a paper. She is still in love with her ex boyfriend who she works with and has just found out he is ...
...to stay. Iris jumps at the chance after all the pain she has been put through. So the two girls decide to swap homes for the holidays. Once swapped Amanda meets Iris's brother Graham played by Jude Law. Iris over in LA meets Miles played by Jack Black. The two girls get in to their new environments and start to manage to solve their problems. I won't say what happens but there is as is expected some romance. I think the idea of the story is quite ...

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...see it mainly because of the cast. A few months ago my boyfriend borrowed the DVD from a friend at work but it turned out it was copied and a very bad copy at that, halfway through the sound stopped working so instead I added it to my list of films I wanted to watch through m the online DVD rental service I use. It came yesterday so I watched it last night. Synopsis: Two beautiful women, Amanda Woods (Cameron Diaz) and Iris Simpkins (Kate Winslet) ...
...two week vacation and surfs the internet. She meets Iris online, and they agree to swap their homes for the holidays. Amanda lives in Los Angles and Iris lives in the countryside of Surrey, England. Even though they now have a change of scenery and want no contact with men, they are both still depressed and lonely. But things are about to change when Iris' brother Graham (Jude Law) drops by Iris' house and meets Amanda. On the other side of the world, ...

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The Holiday I didn’t manage to get to the cinema to see this one, so when it came out on DVD I managed to rent it, even though it is a Christmas film which I am seeing in June! The basic idea of the film is that 2 ladies, 1 American and 1 English, swap houses over the Christmas period, running away from their lives, and end up finding new love they didn’t expect to find. The film’s 2 leading ladies are Kate Winslet as Iris and Cameron Diaz as Amanda ...
...a journalist for the wedding column, and she is hopelessly in love with her colleague Jasper Bloom played by Rufus Sewell. She is devastated when Jasper announces his engagement without telling her beforehand, and she goes home to her cottage in Surrey, sobbing her heart out. Amanda on the hand, in sunny LA, is breaking up with her boyfriend Ernie after finding out he cheated on her. She realizes her job as a movie trailer editor does not allow ...

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