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The Holiday |  | Director: Nancy Meyers
Actors: Kate Winslet, Cameron Diaz, Jude Law, Jack Black, Eli Wallach
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
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Rating:  347 reviews
Sales Rank: 403
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, NTSC, Subtitled
Languages: English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 99
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Running Time: 138 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 043396173828
UPC: 043396173828
EAN: 0043396173828
ASIN: B000MQC9H4
Theatrical Release Date: December 8, 2006
Release Date: March 13, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Two women swap houses for the holidays.
Amazon.com
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
Extras from The Holiday 
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Film Clip: "Sushi for Two"high bandwidth
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Film Clip: "Oh Brother"high bandwidth
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 347
 Swimming the Sea of Estrogen July 26, 2010
D. Mikels (Skunk Holler)
Normally I run (screaming) from chick flicks (not to mention romcoms), but when a film appears featuring the charismatic talent (not to mention physically stunning) of Kate Winslet, it also commands my undivided attention. So I sat through THE HOLIDAY and grimaced and twitched; when it was over I wanted to have a good cry and bake a cake and call my grandmother. Actually I wanted to do none of the above, but I did feel some considerable estrogen exposure.
THE HOLIDAY features two professional women unlucky in love who swap homes for Christmas to forget their troubles. Thus Winslet travels to posh LA, while her counterpart (Cameron Diaz) arrives at Winslet's picturesque cottage in England. And--of course--both ladies encounter romantic interests in the form of Winslet's brother (Jude Law), who captivates Diaz, and the smirking Jack Black, who wows Winslet (note the succession of "w"s). It's all contrived, predictable, and marginally humorous (but please: Jack Black as a romantic interest is a howler), with a closing scene in London on New Year's Eve so syrupy and gooey I had to go out on the driveway and gargle gravel just to get the bubblegum taste out of my mouth. Winslet demonstrates some chops, while Diaz and Law seem to phone their performances in, with the near-centenarian Eli Wallach appearing in a most gracious role. All in all THE HOLIDAY nominally entertains, as long as the viewer doesn't feel compelled to watch in high heels.
D. Mikels, Author, The Reckoning
the Holiday July 26, 2010
S. Zuzga
The Holiday was great and the sender was extremely timely in getting this video to me!
CHICK FLICK ALERT July 25, 2010
cinime
This is pretty simple...I thought the movie was O.K. ...but my wife really liked it...so I bought it...not much more to be said...a real chick flick...
Like this movie, but ... July 22, 2010
Lucy S. (NY USA)
Like this movie, but if Cameron Diaz wouldn't be in it - I would love it. She is maybe cute, but not an actress at all.
 Classic Romantic Comedy July 20, 2010
Amie Bjorklund
If you like Serendipity, Notting Hill, The Princess Bride and/or Sleepless in Seattle you will love this movie. It is worth the money to own it, since I have watched and rewatched it many many times. It is a staple in my Christmas Month of Movies.
Kate Winslet is always endearing and powerful as an actress. Her character here is no different. You love her for not being able to leave the futile relationship and her friendship-turned-love relationship with the always enjoyable Jack Black is one to mirror your life on. Cameron Diaz is "okay" (And I say that with a shrug of the shoulders and a tip of the head.) She never wows me. But here she shares the screen with the effortlessly talented Jude Law which makes their love story one not to miss. He is handsome with a capitol H! And charming as only an Englishman can be.
This movie will make you smile laugh and cry those wonderful tears of movie joy. It will remind you why romantic comedies are an enduring genre and it will remind you that love is possible, even when it looks like all you want to do is cury your head in the covers.
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