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The Holiday [2006]
starring: Cameron Diaz, Jack Black, Kate Winslet, Jude Law
directed by: Nancy Meyers

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 5 to 9 days Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
Binding: DVD
EAN: 5050582482355
Format: PAL, Subtitled
Label: Universal Pictures Video
Manufacturer: Universal Pictures Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal Pictures Video
Region Code: 2
Release Date: March 26, 2007
Running Time: 130 minutes
Studio: Universal Pictures Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2006
Sales Rank: 191

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.co.uk 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

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- I can't make it through
I usually like chick flicks, but this film was just too slow to hold my interest. Plus, it was cringeworthy and awkward to watch. On the whole, I admire Kate Winslet as an actress, but in this film, I just found her very annoying. I wouldn't recommend this to anyone...it gets two stars simply because its aesthetically pleasing...

Rating:

- Great
Leant to me by a friend and had a great night in. Good feel good chick flick. Get in your PJ's girls, chocolate and wine at the ready and go for it

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- The Holiday
At first glance this film seemed to be your typical chick flick with a distinctly 'Bridget Jones' feel about it. But as soon as the house swap occurred it very quickly picked up and becomes quite an endearing story. It isn't too heavy, has some fun performances and is an easy way to spend an afternoon. Kate Winslet is great as a heartbroken journalist who befriends an old school Hollywood script writer and Diaz is good as the highly stressed new era Hollywood type who falls in love in low key English surrey. This is a fairly heart warming, innocuous afternoons viewing and although not brilliant, it is a good enough film for those lighter moments. Worth a look as long as you don't expect too much.

Rating:

- Predictable chick flick
Amanda Woods (Cameron Diaz) is a Hollywood trailer producer who's just gotten her heart broken; Iris Simkins (Kate Winslet) lives in England and is also at the losing end of a romance. Both ladies are miserable and decide to get away from home for Christmas. They find each other on an online house-switch site and before you can say "I know how this is going to end!" Amanda is living in a cozy English cottage and Iris is ensconced in a luxurious LA mansion. And you'll never guess what happens next. (Okay, you will guess - in about half a minute.)

Diaz, Winslet, and their co-stars Jude Law and Jack Black are all fine here, looking beautiful and clever and giving sincere performances. It's not their fault that the script is so predictable ... Read More:

Rating:

- WOW!!!!
This has GOT to be one of my fave chick-flicks of alll time.
I love it soo much , i watched it near christmas , and it got me in the moood,since then i have watched it at least once a week.Its one of them films , you can watch over and over again.Cameron Diaz,Jack Black,Kate Winslet and Jude Law, well what else can you ask for ?
I really loved it.
5*

DVD : The Holiday [2006]