The Holiday [2006] | ![The Holiday [2006]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51w%2BKE8BJwL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Nancy Meyers
Actors: Cameron Diaz, Jack Black, Kate Winslet, Jude Law
Studio: Universal Pictures Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  105 reviews
Sales Rank: 149
Format: Pal, Subtitled
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
Region: 2
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 130 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5050582482355
ASIN: B000N6SRG0
Theatrical Release Date: 2006
Release Date: March 26, 2007
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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
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 I can't make it through September 24, 2008
Ms. S. C. Ashman (England)
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...
 Great September 5, 2008
Eliza (Warwickshire, England)
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
 The Holiday September 5, 2008
Spider Monkey (UK)
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.
Predictable chick flick August 28, 2008
Kona (Derbyshire)
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 and corny with no room for WHY these new loves blossom so quickly, so blissfully, and so conveniently, considering the women are emotionally wounded and would need some time to heal. And what exactly are the odds of meeting your dream mate within hours of moving to a foreign country? Eli Wallach gives a winning performance as a doddering old scriptwriter befriended by Iris, but again, it's all too perfect; there's no question that they will become instant buddies and that their lives will both be enriched by their meeting.
If I were a woman in the 18-26 target zone, I'd probably love this movie and shed a few tears at it; as it is, I just kept thinking, "Well, there's five hours of my life I'll never get back." (What? It's only 136 minutes? Impossible! I thought it would never end.)
 WOW!!!! August 18, 2008
T. Allen
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
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*
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