The Holiday
by Nancy Meyers
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Actor: Cameron Diaz, Eli Wallach, Jack Black, Jude Law, Kate WinsletDirector: Nancy Meyers
Brand: DIAZ,CAMERON
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 136 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-03-13
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Sony Pictures
DVD Reviews of The Holiday
DVD Review: Romantic, with "Cute" Meet-ups"
Summary: 3 Stars
The movie is a bit long for the story, but overall has a few bright moments. I thought that the part with the 91 year old Eli Walach was one of the bright moments to enjoy.
The two female romantic leads are Cameron Diaz (a southern California advertising VIP that creates movie trailers) and Iris Simpkins (Kate Winslet) an English wedding column writer who lives in a quaint cottage in the English countryside.
They both need a break from the men who complicate their lives. By chance both Amanda and Iris find each other through an Internet site that specializes in home exchanges for short-term get-a-ways. Amanda and Iris are thousands of miles away from each other but both are excited to change homes and cross continents to move into each other's homes for two weeks.
Iris lands in Amanda's Los Angeles home, and Amanda lands in Iris's English cottage.
Each young woman has a eye-opening adventure and learn of new and deep relationships in their unfamiliar settings.
Iris helps Arthur (Eli Wallach) who is a screenwriter from Hollywood's golden days. He has her watch movies of strong female lead and Iris helps him find the confidence to face his past and accept some praise from his peers. Iris also finds true love in Los Angeles (Jack Black).
Amanda meets Iris's handsome brother (Jude Law) as he comes knocking at the cottage door. She learns that he is a widower with two small children, and discovers that even though she does not want to risk vulnerability, she finds love and trust to ask for the family she wants.
DVD Review: Turned the channel every time!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie has came on cable about 15-20 times and I have turned it every time!!! Thinking this movie had no real plot and a definite chick flick I kept on turning the channel, boy was I missing out on a great film!! I finally watched this movie one night and absolutely loved it!! It is definitely a chick flick, but well worth the watch!! This movie made me fall madly in love with Jude Law, oh my goodness, he is soooo hot!! Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet, and Jack Black are also great in this movie. I really enjoyed this movie, it is well worth watching!!!DVD Review: A Christmas Sugarplum
Summary: 4 Stars
Many previous reviewers have given you the basic plot here, so I will concentrate on the acting.
Despite Cameron Diaz's performance (about which more later) this is one of my all-time favorite romanticomedies. Kate Winslet, as Iris, is absolutely wonderful--down-to-earth and believable. Her transformation from weepy-wimp-in-love-with-loser in the beginning of the movie, to someone with a lot more spine and self-esteem in the end is satisfying to watch. The kind and sweet relationship that develops as Iris determinedly coaxes the very funny Eli Wallach out of his solitary lifestyle--finding her own strength along the way--made me want to cheer for both of them.
I have previously avoided movies starring Jack Black, simply because the trailers looked so stupid. But after seeing his performance as the gentle and optimistic Miles, I'm willing to give him a chance in movies like this. Himself involved with a self-absorbed and cheating girlfriend, you wonder if Miles is going to come to his senses and do something about what's developing between Iris and him. Although Jack is certainly nobody's idea of the classic romantic leading man, he gives a very endearing, sweet, and credible performance here.
Jude Law is...well...just plain yummy as Graham, coincidentally Iris's brother. He has a sad romantic history of his own, and a personal life that he keeps (understandably) secret from Amanda (Diaz). If you can suspend disbelief that an emotionally healthy person can fall so deeply in love in such a short time, you'll love him.
I haven't been able to figure out if Diaz was just doing an over-the-top performance of a spoiled little rich girl, or whether she can't act, but she was anything but believable. Although I enjoyed the scene of her shopping in the local village, too many scenes were overplayed, with wide-eyed, open-mouthed, scrunched-face reactions, and foot-stomping tantrums way too close to slapstick for my taste. She was marginally better near the end of the film--maybe her idea of her character's emotional growth?
However, don't let my general dislike of Diaz's performance keep you away from this movie. The others more than cover for her. You might recognize your own romantic mistakes in Iris's cad of a boyfriend--I know that I did!--and Graham's daughters are complete scene-stealers!
So, all in all, well worth the price of admission.
DVD Review: Bad Service
Summary: 1 Stars
Ordered DVD on 10/30/09 and sent an e-mail to the company, and received tracking information and couldn't even talk to a real person. Tracking showed it being delivered to the USPS. I see that the seller on the most part has good reviews, but in my case nothing was done to solve the problem.DVD Review: Leaves you smiling.
Summary: 5 Stars
One of those movies that are little heard of, but shouldn't be missed. Happy endings all around. I've watched it three times already and enjoyed it as much the third as the first. My mom just watched it this weekend and has declared it one of her favorites, worthy of multiple viewings.
Get this movie and cuddle up with a warm cup of tea or cocoa. Then get ready to love the characters and smile joyously in the end. Watch it alone or with a friend. Either way, you're gonna love it.
Description of The Holiday
Two women, one Los Angeles and the other in London, exchange homes during the Christmas holiday to forget the men in their lives, only to fall in love again.Genre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 2-OCT-2007
Media Type: DVD
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
Extras from The Holiday
 First Look Featurettehigh bandwidth |  Film Clip: "Sushi for Two"high bandwidth |  Film Clip: "Oh Brother"high bandwidth |
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