good film for a wedding anniversary

Rating: 7/10 (13 July 2008)

I am not a great fan of romantic comedies which I can stand only in small doses at large intervals in time, but 'The Holiday' plus half of bottle of champagne from yesterday's party was the best film viewing for the occasion. I should add that it's not a bad movie as you can believe reading some of the critics, succeeding to raise above the usual kitsch level of the films in the genre.
The two main protagonists of the story are a Californian trailer producer (Cameron Diaz) and a British journalist (Kate WInslet) who on holidays eve are abandoned by their years long love interests who happened both to be absolute jerks and in order to run from depression and solitude enter a home swap, exchanging residences for the period of the holidays. In a very convenient manner a few screen minutes after landing at each others home salvation knocks at their doors incarnated by the comic super-genius Jack Black and by British beau-of-the-day Jude Law. What follows is what you suspect it follows but surprisingly the parallel story develop in quite a cursive manner, dialogs are most of them funny, though they do not avoid completely being too wordy, and the four acting stars seem to have a good time. A special mention is to be made to the character of the old Hollywood script-writer, aced with emotion and nostalgia by Eli Wallach in a deep reverence to the good old American movies industry.
Good entertainment for Christmas, wedding anniversaries and maybe in other occasions too.