The Holiday

Description

In Nancy Meyers’ The Holiday, a romantic comedy from the
director of Something’s Gotta Give and What Women Want, two women trade homes
only to find that a change of address can change their lives. Iris (Winslet)
is in love with a man who is about to marry another woman. Across the globe,
Amanda (Diaz), realizes the man she lives with has been unfaithful. Two women
who have never met and live 6000 miles apart, find themselves in the exact
same place. They meet online at a home exchange website and impulsively switch
homes for the holiday. Iris moves into Amanda’s L.A. house in sunny California
as Amanda arrives in the snow covered English countryside. Shortly after
arriving at their destinations, both women find the last thing either wants or
expects: a new romance. Amanda is charmed by Iris’ handsome brother Graham
(Law) and Iris, with inspiration provided by legendary screenwriter Arthur
(Wallach), mends her heart when she meets film composer Miles (Black).
As a pleasant dose of holiday cheer, The Holiday is a lovable love
story with all the Christmas trimmings. In the capable hands of writer-
director Nancy Meyers (making her first romantic comedy since Something’s
Gotta Give), it all begins when two successful yet unhappy women connect
through a home-swapping website, and decide to trade houses for the Christmas
holiday in a mutual effort to forget their man troubles. Iris (Kate Winslet)
is a London-based journalist who lives in a picture-postcard cottage in
Surrey, and Amanda (Cameron Diaz) owns a movie-trailer production company
(leading her to cutely imagine most of her life as a “coming attraction”) and
lives in a posh mansion in Beverly Hills. Iris is heartbroken from unrequited
love with a cad of a colleague (Rufus Sewell), and Amanda has just broken up
with her cheating boyfriend (Edward Burns), so their home-swapping offers
mutual downtime to reassess their love lives. This being a Nancy Meyers movie
(where everything is fabulously decorated and romantic wish-fulfillment is
virtually guaranteed), Amanda hooks up with Iris’s charming brother Graham
(Jude Law), and Iris is unexpectedly smitten with Miles (Jack Black), a super-
nice film composer on the downside of a failing relationship. –Jeff Shannon

Features:

Product Details:

• Genre: Romance, Comedy
• Format: NTSC, Multiple Formats, Subtitled, AC-3, Dolby, Color
• Contributor: Eli Wallach, Rufus Sewell, Columbia Pictures, Nancy Meyers, Kate Winslet, Bruce A. Block, Jack Black, Jude Law, Edward Burns, Cameron Diaz See more
• Language: English
• Runtime: 2 hours and 16 minutes
• Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 2.35:1
• Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
• MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
• Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.75 inches; 0.01 Ounces
• Item model number ‏ : ‎ 1201
• Director ‏ : ‎ Nancy Meyers
• Media Format ‏ : ‎ NTSC, Multiple Formats, Subtitled, AC-3, Dolby, Color
• Run time ‏ : ‎ 2 hours and 16 minutes
• Release date ‏ : ‎ March 13, 2007
• Actors ‏ : ‎ Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Jack Black, Eli Wallach