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The Holiday 
Actors : Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Jack Black, Eli Wallach
Director : Nancy Meyers
Studio : Sony Pictures
by Sony Pictures
Brand : DIAZ/WINSLET/LAW
Release Date : 2007-03-13
Publisher : Sony Pictures
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Number of Items : 1
EAN : 0043396173828
UPC : 043396173828
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 258 reviews)
List Price : $19.94
Our Price : $6.00
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Product Description |
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.
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Media Type: DVD
Artist: DIAZ/WINSLET/LAW
Title: HOLIDAY
Street Release Date: 03/13/2007
Domestic
Genre: COMEDY VIDEO |
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Americancivilwar.com |
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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
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Film Clip: "Sushi for Two"high bandwidth
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Film Clip: "Oh Brother"high bandwidth
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Stills from The Holiday (click for larger image) Beyond The Holiday on Americancivilwar.com 
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The Films of Nancy Meyers |
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Wonderful movie!!! |
I was first a little skeptical of this movie before watching it because it only had 2 stars. However, this is a great feel good movie! I was pleasantly surprised and happy to see it! Not only does it have great romance it also has a wonderful element of friendship which I admire.
I highly recommend this movie! |
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Truly awful. |
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I must say I've enjoyed the work of all 4 main actors (Winslet, Diaz, Law, and Black) in other films, but they are all sadly wasted in this one. And casting Jack Black opposite Kate Winslet? Totally unbelievable. The only semi-believable character is Rufus Sewell as Winslet's cad of an ex-boyfriend. The basic plot sounded like fun and had real potential, but much of the dialogue sounded like something a high school student might have written. And I'm not trying to insult high school students who aspire to be writers, but most of the dialogue is truly immature. The only reason I'm giving it even one star is because Jude Law is so good to look at. |
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Diaz drags this one down |
Kate Winslet portrays Iris, a shy writer who has been carrying on a one-sided romance with a colleague. Heartbroken when he gets engaged, she decides she needs a change of scenery and trades homes for the holiday with Hollywood power player Amanda (Cameron Diaz), who also is nursing a broken heart. While Amanda finds romance with Iris' brother Graham (Jude Law) in the English countryside, Iris falls for music composer Miles (Jack Black) in LA, while befriending Arthur (Eli Wallach), a lonely neighbor with ties to the golden age of Hollywood. But can either romance outlast the holiday?
Winslet as always is enchanting, and overshadows Diaz, proving what a superior actress she is. Her performance is flawless and real, while Diaz overacts and over gestures her way through the entire script. Black makes an unlikely but believable romantic counterpart. Overall, it's an enjoyable romantic comedy with a pretty good ensemble cast. |
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America is going to pot!! |
I had wanted to see this movie when it came out. I liked all the actors in it and the plot sounded like fun--not. The Kate Winslet/Jack Black and Eli Wallach sub-plot, saved the movie, that's who the 2 stars are for.
Cameron Diaz, who I normally like was terrible as was Jude Law. This is not romance. Dragging a drunken stranger to use for sex, that is not romantic and yet people think this is good. The whole relationship with these 2 ruined the movie. Sorry I don't root for loose women and her over-acting was terrible to boot. I felt no chemistry between them whatsoever.
The Kate Winslet story was sweet. She was a much better person, as was Jack Black. I heard people knocking Jack down for his straight bit, they should have been knocking Jude and Cameron for their performance and this miserable script for them.
Eli Wallach was superb. He added much to the movie. It was so sweet.
I'm with the reviewer who called it "Tainted Love". If they had built up a relationship with those two, maybe it could have amounted to something, but loose sex with a strange drunk is NOT charming and either was Cameron's arm's flapping.
And this was a Holiday movie? Isn't that special? |
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Good chick flick |
Always a good chick flick. I admit that I've seen this movie a number of times now. I bought this as a gift for a chick. She loved it. The end.
This movie portrays nicely the coincidental interactions and developing relationships between unlikely individuals. I generally hate on Cameron Diaz, but she's pretty charming in this movie. And Jack Black never ceases to amuse. |
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