So Rox and my friend Anastasia Beaverhausen went to the new Nancy Meyers-penned/directed movie "The Holiday" this evening for a good old-fashioned dose of chick-flickdom. Not really expecting too much (especially that the movie was going to be 2 hours and 15 minutes), Rox and friend were pleasantly surprised by the film but it wasn't because of the premise or because of the all-too-predictable girl-feels-bad-about-herself-so-settles-for-less-until-some-stranger-comes-into-her-life-to-make-her-realize-she's-pretty dribble...it simply was Kate Winslet and Jude Law. If you want to see two true actors take some rather average circumstances and change them into a fine wine then you have to see this movie. Ironically they play brother and sister which means the acting gene clearly is part of their family loins....but they both are so brilliantly beautiful and nuanced that you just want to be adopted by their parents, for goodness sakes. Scenario is as follows...Cameron is an over-achieving Hollywood muckity muck who finds out her live-in beau is screwing his assistant so she decides to run away from her problems; simultaneously, Kate is in England and is in love with a co-worker who just announced his engagement to some other tramp so now Kate needs to escape. Through a "home exchange" Web site, Kate and Cameron meet and exchange houses for two weeks. Although not as funny as Freaky Friday, of course, the adoption of certain aspects of each other's lives is interesting -- especially when Kate meets the fabulous Eli Walach who plays a 90 year-old Hollywood has-been/neighbor of Cameron's and they begin teaching each other about life (fantastic writing here, folks)....and, of course, Cameron falls in love with Jude who has some secrets of his own. Oh, and then there's the not-so-talented Jack Black who enters Kate's world (horribly miscast here against Kate but at least Rox wasn't longing for Nacho Libre every time Black opened his mouth). If you have ever settled for a relationship or for what life has dealt you and yet never were very happy about either then you'll relate to this movie a lot. If you love to look at Cameron or Jude you also will love this movie. But it's the interaction between Eli and Kate that truly makes this a happy holiday. TTGP gives "The Holiday" a 4-pack of pop (out of six) if you just want some good old-fashioned chickflick action!!
12.10.2006
Happy "Holiday"
So Rox and my friend Anastasia Beaverhausen went to the new Nancy Meyers-penned/directed movie "The Holiday" this evening for a good old-fashioned dose of chick-flickdom. Not really expecting too much (especially that the movie was going to be 2 hours and 15 minutes), Rox and friend were pleasantly surprised by the film but it wasn't because of the premise or because of the all-too-predictable girl-feels-bad-about-herself-so-settles-for-less-until-some-stranger-comes-into-her-life-to-make-her-realize-she's-pretty dribble...it simply was Kate Winslet and Jude Law. If you want to see two true actors take some rather average circumstances and change them into a fine wine then you have to see this movie. Ironically they play brother and sister which means the acting gene clearly is part of their family loins....but they both are so brilliantly beautiful and nuanced that you just want to be adopted by their parents, for goodness sakes. Scenario is as follows...Cameron is an over-achieving Hollywood muckity muck who finds out her live-in beau is screwing his assistant so she decides to run away from her problems; simultaneously, Kate is in England and is in love with a co-worker who just announced his engagement to some other tramp so now Kate needs to escape. Through a "home exchange" Web site, Kate and Cameron meet and exchange houses for two weeks. Although not as funny as Freaky Friday, of course, the adoption of certain aspects of each other's lives is interesting -- especially when Kate meets the fabulous Eli Walach who plays a 90 year-old Hollywood has-been/neighbor of Cameron's and they begin teaching each other about life (fantastic writing here, folks)....and, of course, Cameron falls in love with Jude who has some secrets of his own. Oh, and then there's the not-so-talented Jack Black who enters Kate's world (horribly miscast here against Kate but at least Rox wasn't longing for Nacho Libre every time Black opened his mouth). If you have ever settled for a relationship or for what life has dealt you and yet never were very happy about either then you'll relate to this movie a lot. If you love to look at Cameron or Jude you also will love this movie. But it's the interaction between Eli and Kate that truly makes this a happy holiday. TTGP gives "The Holiday" a 4-pack of pop (out of six) if you just want some good old-fashioned chickflick action!!
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