The Holiday

December 9th

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, Amanda (Cameron Diaz) owns a movie-trailer production company (leading her to cutely imagine most of her life as a "coming attraction") she lives in a posh mansion in Beverly Hills.

Iris is heartbroken from unrequited love with a cad of a colleague (Rufus Sewell), 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.

Rated 12 for sexual content and some strong language.