Product: Holiday (1938)
Rating: 5.0
Great Film
Holiday is one of the great American films. It is a movie that improves with each viewing. The movie is subtle, outrageous, well written, superply acted, and magnificently directed. This film is a quantum level better than the more celebrated Hepburn, Grant, Cukor film from 1940 The Philadelphia Story. The charcters are unique, well drawn, and void of any of the romantic comedy stereotypes that populate so many films of this genre.Lew Ayers gives one of the greatest performances ever as Hepburn's alcoholic brother..............he is both funny and heartbreaking and he steals every scene he is in. Grant and Hepburn give maybe their best performances ever; only Bringing Up Baby is competitive.I guess one can call Holiday a romantic comedy, but if so it is in the tradition of Shakespearean comedy where romance is used to reveal greater truths of the human condition.If you have not seen this movie, I cannot recommend more highly. It is one of the most unique films ever made.