The Holiday

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The Holiday
Theholidayposter.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Nancy Meyers
Written byNancy Meyers
Produced byNancy Meyers
Bruce A. Block
Starring
Cinematography Dean Cundey
Edited by Joe Hutshing
Music by Hans Zimmer
Production
companies
Distributed by
Release dates
  • November 29, 2006 (2006-11-29)(New York City)
  • December 8, 2006 (2006-12-08)(United Kingdom and United States)
Running time
136 minutes [1]
Countries
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$85 million [2] [3]
Box office$205.8 million [2]

The Holiday is a 2006 romantic comedy film written, produced and directed by Nancy Meyers. Coproduced by Bruce A. Block, it was filmed in both California and England and stars Kate Winslet and Cameron Diaz as Iris and Amanda, two lovelorn women from opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean, who arrange a home exchange to escape heartbreak during the Christmas and holiday season. Jude Law and Jack Black were cast as the film's leading men Graham and Miles, with Eli Wallach, Shannyn Sossamon, Edward Burns, and Rufus Sewell playing supporting roles.

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The Holiday premiered in New York City on November 29, 2006, before it was theatrically released in the United Kingdom and the United States on December 8, 2006. The film was distributed by Columbia Pictures in North America and by Universal Pictures overseas. It grossed over $205 million worldwide against a budget of $85 million. The film received mixed reviews, with critics praising its visual design and the cast's performances while regarding the plot as predictable.

Plot

Iris Simpkins, a society columnist for The Daily Telegraph in London, is obsessively in love with her ex-boyfriend and co-worker, Jasper Bloom. Even though he cheated on her and is currently in a relationship, Jasper has been keeping Iris close under the guise of "remaining friends". When his engagement is announced at the company Christmas party, Iris is devastated.

Amanda Woods, owner of a film trailer company in Los Angeles, breaks up with her film composer boyfriend, Ethan, after he cheats on her, citing her emotional unavailability. Coming across Iris's listing of her Surrey cottage on a home swap website, she messages her, and the two agree to switch houses for two weeks starting the next day.

Iris happily settles into Amanda's large house, but Amanda has trouble adjusting to quiet English country life and decides to return home the next day. That night, Iris's brother, Graham, drops by after drinking too much at the local pub, asking to spend the night. Amanda agrees, and after they talk, Graham unexpectedly kisses her on the lips; she suggests they have sex because she does not expect to see him ever again. The next morning, despite enjoying their time together, they go their separate ways. However, Amanda decides to stay and continue seeing Graham.

Iris meets Arthur Abbott, Amanda's elderly neighbor, an Oscar-winning screenwriter from the Golden Age of Hollywood. Over dinner, Iris reveals her troubles with Jasper, and Arthur gives her a long list of classic films with strong female characters such as The Lady Eve , so she can become "the leading lady of her own life". She returns his kindness by helping him prepare for a Writers Guild of America gala in his honor. Meanwhile, Iris befriends Miles, a colleague of Ethan's who is dating aspiring actress Maggie. After he catches Maggie with another man, Iris and Miles bond over their similar relationship troubles, and they have dinner together on Christmas Eve.

Amanda and Graham become closer, but she believes she is one of many women in his life. Surprising him one evening at his house, she discovers he is a widower with two young daughters, Sophie and Olivia. He reveals that he never tells new romantic partners about his daughters, because compartmentalizing his life helps him deal with the overwhelming responsibility of being a single working father, and he does not want to bring a woman into the girls' lives unless the relationship definitely has a future.

On the gala day, Maggie asks Miles to take her back, but he refuses. Jasper surprises Iris by showing up at Amanda's wanting to reignite their romance, but when he reveals he is still engaged, she kicks him out. At the gala, Arthur gives a rousing speech, and Miles asks Iris out on a date for New Year's Eve. She tells him that she will be returning to England soon. Miles admits he has never been to England, so he asks if he could accompany her home for New Year's and she happily accepts, and they kiss.

Graham tells Amanda he has fallen in love with her, and while she says she does not return the sentiment, they pessimistically agree to try to make a long-distance relationship work. While heading to the airport, Amanda breaks down crying for the first time in years, and runs back to the cottage to find Graham similarly in tears and they decide to spend New Year's Eve together with his daughters.

On New Year's Eve, Iris, Amanda, Miles, Graham, Sophie, and Olivia all happily celebrate together at Graham's house.

Cast

Rufus Sewell plays Jasper Bloom, Iris's emotionally needy ex-boyfriend, while Edward Burns appears as Ethan, Amanda's unfaithful composer boyfriend whom she breaks up with in the beginning of the film. Shannyn Sossamon plays Maggie, Miles's actress girlfriend. Sewell and Sossamon reunite as they both starred in A Knight's Tale (2001) together, although they do not share a scene. The film also cast Bill Macy as Ernie and Shelley Berman as Norman, friends of Arthur, as well as Kathryn Hahn as Bristol and John Krasinski as Ben, Amanda's employees. Jon Prescott appears as Maggie's short-time affair.

Dustin Hoffman appears in the video rental store in an uncredited cameo as Jack Black talks about the score from The Graduate (1967). According to Hoffman, this was unscripted and unexpected. He was going to Blockbuster Video to rent a film when he saw the lighting from the film production crew and walked over to see what was happening. He knew director Nancy Meyers, who scripted a short scene with him in it. [17]

Lindsay Lohan, who had made her motion picture debut in Meyers's remake of The Parent Trap (1998), and James Franco, a friend of Meyers, make uncredited appearances in the trailer of the fictional film Deception, which Amanda and her team finish at the beginning of The Holiday. [7] Veteran voice-over talent Hal Douglas was the narrator for the trailer, as well as other "trailers" that describe Amanda's situation at various points in the film. [18] Alex O'Loughlin and Odette Yustman play a kissing couple in a fictional film in the opening scene as Miles composes the music for the scene.

Production

Filming on location in Godalming. TheHoliday.jpg
Filming on location in Godalming.

Production on The Holiday began in Los Angeles, then moved to England for a month before completing filming back in California. [19] Principal photography began in the Brentwood area on the Westside of Los Angeles, where real Santa Ana winds reportedly gave Meyers and her team a winter day as warm as scripted in the screenplay. [19] Although Amanda's home is set in Brentwood, the exterior scenes at the gated property were actually filmed in front of Southern California architect Wallace Neff's Mission Revival house in San Marino, a suburb adjacent to Pasadena. Neff had built the house for his family in 1928. The interiors of Amanda's house were filmed at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City. [19] Other Los Angeles locations included Arthur's house in Brentwood and Miles's house, designed by Richard Neutra, which is situated on Neutra Place in L.A.'s Silver Lake area, near downtown. [19]

The UK part of the film was partially shot in Godalming and Shere, a town and village in the county of Surrey in South East England that dates back to the 11th century. [19] The cottage's exterior was constructed in a field adjacent to St James's Church in Shere. The production team had sourced a genuine cottage but it was located a considerable distance from London, where the crew was based, so they opted to construct one for filming. [20] Filming began on January 4, 2006, and concluded on June 15, 2006.[ citation needed ] Charles Shyer directed Lohan and Franco's scenes for the fictional movie trailer made by Diaz's character. [21]

Reception

Box office

The film opened at number three on the United States box office, raking in $12,778,913 in the weekend of December 8, 2006. [3] Altogether, The Holiday made $63 million at the North American domestic box office, and $142 million at the international box office. [2] The film grossed a total of $205,841,885, worldwide, against a production budget of $85 million. The Holiday became the twelfth highest-grossing film of the 2000s to be helmed by a female director. [22]

Critical response

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 50% based on 159 reviews with an average rating of 5.70/10. The site's critical consensus states "While it's certainly sweet and even somewhat touching, The Holiday is so thoroughly predictable that audiences may end up opting for an early check-out time." [23] On Metacritic it has a score of 52 out of 100 based on reviews from 31 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". [24] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave it a grade A. [25]

In her review for USA Today , Claudia Puig found that The Holiday "is a rare chick flick/romantic comedy that, despite its overt sentimentality and fairy-tale premise, doesn't feel cloyingly sweet." She felt that "much of the credit goes to inspired casting and the actors' chemistry." [26] Carina Chocano, writing for the Los Angeles Times noted that "like a magic trick in reverse, The Holiday reveals the mechanics of the formula while trying to keep up the illusion." She complimented Winslet and Law's performances, but was critical toward Diaz, who she felt "strikes the off-note, but then you tend to think it's not her fault." [27] Rex Reed from The New York Observer noted that "at least 90% of The Holiday is a stocking-stuffer from Tiffany's ... so loaded with charm that it makes you glow all over and puts a smile in your heart." While he felt that the final 15 minutes of film "diminish a lot of the film's good intentions," he added that Meyers had "created some hearth-cozy situations, written some movie-parody zingers, and provided Eli Wallach with his best role in years." [28]

Somewhat less enthusiastic, Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly graded the film with a B− rating, summing it as a "cookie-cutter chick flick." He concluded that "it's a self-consciously old-fashioned premise, with too much sub-Bridget Jones dithering, but Nancy Meyers' dialogue has a perky synthetic sheen." [29] Justin Chang from Variety wrote that while "Meyers' characters tend to be more thoughtful and self-aware (or at least more self-conscious) than most ... this overlong film isn't nearly as smart as it would like to appear, and it willingly succumbs to the very rom-com cliches it pretends to subvert." He added, that "in a spirited cast ... the Brits easily outshine their Yank counterparts. Winslet weeps and moans without sacrificing her radiance or sympathy, while the marginally less teary-eyed Law effortlessly piles on the charm in a role that will have some amusing resonances for tabloid readers." [30] Ruthe Stein of the San Francisco Chronicle remarked that the film was "the most love-centric movie since Love Actually ." She felt that The Holiday "has charming moments and a hopeful message for despondent singles, but it lacks the emotional resonance of Meyers' Something's Gotta Give (2003) and the zaniness of What Women Want (2000). Clocking in at 2 hours and 16 minutes, Holiday is ridiculously long for a romantic comedy and would benefit from losing at least a half-hour." [31]

Accolades

List of awards and nominations
AwardCategoryRecipientsResult
ALMA Awards [32] Outstanding Actress - Motion PictureCameron DiazNominated
Irish Film & Television Awards [32] Best International Actress (People's Choice)Kate WinsletNominated
NRJ Ciné Awards [32] Meilleur baiser ("Best Kiss")Cameron Diaz
Jude Law
Nominated
Teen Choice Awards [32] Choice Movie: Chick Flick Won
Choice Movie: Hissy Fit Cameron DiazNominated

Soundtrack

The Holiday
Soundtrack album by
Hans Zimmer, Heitor Pereira, various artists
ReleasedDecember 5, 2006
RecordedSeptember 2006
Genre Film soundtrack
Length48:12
Label Varèse Sarabande
Producer Hans Zimmer, Nancy Meyers, Robert Townson

The official soundtrack contains music by various artists, Heitor Pereira, and Hans Zimmer and was released on the Varèse Sarabande label.

  1. "Maestro" by Hans Zimmer - 3:53
  2. "Iris and Jasper" by Hans Zimmer and Lorne Balfe - 3:24
  3. "Kayak for One" by Ryeland Allison - 1:30
  4. "Zero" by Hans Zimmer and Atli Örvarsson - 2:44
  5. "Dream Kitchen" by Hans Zimmer and Henry Jackman - 1:35
  6. "Separate Vacations" by Hans Zimmer, Lorne Balfe and Imogen Heap - 1:47
  7. "Anything Can Happen" by Hans Zimmer and Heitor Pereira - 0:48
  8. "Light My Fire" by Hans Zimmer - 1:14
  9. "Definitely Unexpected" by Hans Zimmer and Lorne Balfe - 3:34
  10. "If I Wanted To Call You" by Hans Zimmer and Atli Örvarsson - 1:50
  11. "Roadside Rhapsody" by Hans Zimmer and Henry Jackman - 1:39
  12. "Busy Guy" by Hans Zimmer and Henry Jackman - 1:28
  13. "For Nancy" by Hans Zimmer, Atli Orvarsson and Lorne Balfe - 1:27
  14. "It's Complicated" by Hans Zimmer and Imogen Heap - 1:00
  15. "Kiss Goodbye" by Heitor Pereira and Herb Alpert - 2:33
  16. "Verso E Prosa" by Heitor Pereira - 1:59
  17. "Meu Passado" by Hans Zimmer, Henry Jackman and Lorne Balfe - 1:25
  18. "The 'Cowch'" by Hans Zimmer, Heitor Pereira, Lorne Balfe and Imogen Heap - 2:42
  19. "Three Musketeers" by Hans Zimmer, Heitor Pereira, Lorne Balfe and Imogen Heap - 2:44
  20. "Christmas Surprise" by Hans Zimmer and Lorne Balfe - 2:32
  21. "Gumption" by Hans Zimmer, Atli Orvarsson and Henry Jackman - 3:45
  22. "Cry" by Hans Zimmer, Lorne Balfe and Heitor Pereira - 2:39
  23. "It's a Shame" by The Spinners
  24. "You Send Me" by Aretha Franklin

Rumored sequel

In December 2022, it was rumored that a sequel to The Holiday was in preproduction, with Cameron Diaz, Jude Law, Kate Winslet and Jack Black all signing on to reprise their roles from the original. [35] [36] [37] However Meyers and Winslet both denied the rumor. [38] [39]

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