A modern classic

Rating: 10/10 (20 December 2018)

Love this movie! We've watched it most every year since first seeing it in the movie theater. The plot involves two very unlucky-in-love women, one in England and one in Los Angeles, who need to get away from their usual lives and exchange homes around Christmastime. Personal challenges and growth, and romance ensues. I've heard a good film described as one with "three good scenes and no bad ones"; I look forward to every scene in this film, and every performance is good from the four leads (Jack Black is a great bit of unconventional casting the works) to all the supporting roles. Great settings, music, and dialogue. The world these characters inhabit is an affluent one (like in so many other films), though that works here, too. A thoroughly enjoyable experience only a Scrooge wouldn't like.