Perfect for a cold winter night

Rating: 9/10 (24 January 2009)

I like Cameron Diaz, and Jude Law. I went to see this with my America girlfriend and a good mate in Los Angeles and it certainly made me feel homesick. And also a little sick on the schmaltz. The film worked really well although there were some parts where I felt it was dragging along, Eli Wallach and the kids in the tent, and it got very saccharine sweet in those parts too. But they are just small points. Jude Law came across as very human indeed and so did Jack Black. One of the best parts is that I know both L.A and the villages of Shere, Gomshall and Godalming, where the English scenes were filmed. And because of the film, I took my lady friend from Texas to the pub in Shere where Cameron waited for Jude by the open fire - and it is truly is beautiful at Christmas time. Schmaltz or no schmaltz, it's a lovely film to watch curled up by your own fire in the midst of winter.