A Fine Piece Of Romantic Candy

Rating: 10/10 (13 April 2007)

The Holiday is one of those rare films that leaves you feeling warm and fuzzy on a cold or rainy day, it has everything good acting, a fantastic cast and an all around good plot. The chemistry between Cameron Diaz & Jude Law was electric and utterly amazing, this has to be one of the best films of 2006.
What happens when two women who've never met , had serious men trouble and find themselves alone at Christmas? The question is answered in Nancy Meyer's latest film. In Surrey, England Iris Simpkins, (Winslet a beautiful yet dowdy journalist at the Telegraph is crushed when former fling and fellow employee Jasper (Sewell) gets engaged to the girl he cheated on her with. Across the world in Los Angeles Amanda Woods (Diaz the owner of a film trailer editing company throws out her latest partner Ethan (Burns) for having an affair with a receptionist. These two women meet online at a home exchange program and agree to switch homes for a period of two weeks. While in their new surroundings Amanda meets and is immediately attracted to Iris's older and charming brother Graham (Law).
Iris however still hurt by Jasper's news begins a friendship with Arthur Abbott (Wallach) a forgotten Hollywood screen writer and mends her heart when meeting Miles (Black) a film composer. The budding relationship between Amanda & Graham is a little complicated because he's a single father of two girls but Amanda likes the girls and her leaving soon makes it harder. When Miles' girlfriend Maggie (Sossamon) is seeing another man he realizes that the woman of his dreams has been right in front of him and slowly the sparks begin to fly.
This story about romantic complications and happy endings has been done before but it works well enough with the right amount of formula. For anyone who enjoys a type of romance I recommend the Holiday it's worth the money