Where was the director during the shooting of this film?

Rating: 3/10 (13 December 2008)

I never winced at dialog so many times during a film in my life. "The weather is officially crazy" uttered to Kate's character by Jack Black's on leaving the Chanukkah party... eeeeeeew. C'mon - who talks like that? Those poor actors. And the mistakes in continuity, the sloppy editing - yikes! in one of the shots outside the restaurant Cameron and Jude's images are reversed; the mirror image makes them appear to be two different actors if only for a brief moment.
Four nice looking and interesting leads and attractive settings made me optimistic about The Holiday. But the cheesy, wince-worthy dialog, mistakes and loose direction spoiled it.