Product: Holiday (1938)
Rating: 5.0
a 'holiday' to remember
George Cukor's 'Holiday' is a sublime comedy starring Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn. A story of the philosphical and material differences of the wealthy and the working class with a personal commentary that keeps the story alive and still pertinent today. Two sisters fall for the same man and share in the bittersweet experiences of romance and true love which inevitably lead to the eruption of family issues. Lew Ayres is unforgettable as the brother stuck in the middle of it all. Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn, post 'Bringing Up Baby,' really turn their professional romance up when they begin to explore more serious issues in this stylistic New York romance. The giddiness and familiarity of the previous "Bringing Up Baby" and the latter "Philadelphia Story" is poignant and heartfelt, but alive with humor and, clearly, as studied by Hepburn and Grant. The plot is too subtle to give away, because the interactions of Philip Barry's characters are so dynamic in their dialogue that you cannot miss a scene, but after all, the actors truly bring to life the pain and suffering that inevitably occur when love rears it's ugly head. This is the type of comedy-drama Robin Williams' wishes he could do standing on his head. A clear five-star winner that I would watch any day.