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Movie Review: “The Holiday”
Last night, I attended the media preview of “THE HOLIDAY”. Yes, I’ve never heard of it as well. That’s why it’s a media preview.
Synopsis:
A hilarious comedy of life-swapping proportions, about two girls with disastrous love-lives who have reached the end of their respective tethers. Amanda Woods is an overstressed and overworked American trailer producer (Cameron Diaz), who finds out her boyfriend has cheated on her. In
desperate need of a break, she befriends Iris, an English journalist (Kate Winslet) with similar man trouble, via an online home exchange scheme, and they decide to swap houses in rural England & high flying California. While on their respective breaks, Amanda hits it off with Iris’s brother Graham
(Jude Law), while Iris strikes up a friendship with Miles (Jack Black), a film score composer. Written and Directed by Nancy Myers (Something’s Gotta Give, What Women Want).
Have you ever noticed that around this time every year, there is a feel-good movie released just in time? Last time around it was Love Actually. So this year, we have The Holiday.
Written and directed by chick-flick-queen Nancy Meyers (Parent Trap, What Women Want, Something’s Gotta Give), this is the kind of movie that men have to be dragged kicking and screaming to because there are no action scenes, very little sexy bits (but lots of witty erotic chit-chat) and both leading actresses are starting to look their age. This movie is a chick flick through and through. It doesn’t pretend not to cater to women from minute one.
My female friends really enjoyed The Holiday, the way one enjoys a piece of cotton candy. Why wouldn’t they? 2 female losers get stomped all over by their boyfriends and spend time in exciting foreign places only to find lurrrrve again in the arms of other hot men (ok so maybe Jack Black is not that hot).
Verdict: Watch this movie during the festive Xmas season with your girlfriend(s) and observe how everybody walks out of the cinema with a smile on their faces. Straight males are advised not to watch it alone or with their posse.
3.5 out of 5 stars
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