Holiday is worth watching if nothing else is on. An OK-romantic comedy.

Rating: 7/10 (24 April 2007)

Title: The Holiday, Directed by Nancy Meyers, Written by Nancy Meyers, Exec. Produced by Suzanne McNeill Farwell, Produced by Bruce A. Block, Nancy Meyers
Rating: 7/10
The Holiday is a fluffy movie but it drags on for a long time. Kate Winslet is always likable as Iris, who is fed up with an affair that is going nowhere she is having in England.
She decides to swap houses with Amanda, a high power movie editor in Los Angeles. Cameron Diaz is Amanda and she plays the same cute blonde girl. Amanda has no time with men and is emotionally incapable of feeling anything! Sure enough, they experience culture shock in England and Los Angeles, respectively. It's very fun watching Diaz driving in the snow and pigging out. It's even more fun seeing Winslet digging out the expansive, luxurious LA mansion! Like any romantic comedy, they meet a love interest. Amanda meets Graham (a suave Jude Law), who you think is a lady's man, and Iris meets Miles (a more serious but still fun Jack Black).
What makes The Holiday work is how realistically they portray these relationships. They are each on vacation so does it mean they'll stay together? Some people say true love has no boundaries. The movie poses this question, which makes it miles ahead of the standard, gooey-yuks romantic comedy.
Also, there is a subplot involving Hollywood and writers. It felt a little out of place and seemed to be there for the writer to show how we should appreciate legendary script writers.
All in all, The Holiday is good fun and has some intelligence. But it is quite long and has unnecessary subplots. It's the type of movie that is worth watching on a cold Christmas day eating Christmas fettuccine.