I know I’m late watching it, came out Dec. 2006, but I was busy then. Just wanted to mention it is now my new favorite movie though! (and I NEVER like romantic comedies) Maybe it is a huge chick flick, but I love it! I think it is different than than the typical predictable ones though.
Anyway, like anyone really cares what I think about a movie….It has literally been 3 years since I have sat through complete movie. I’ve always been able to turn off any movie right in the middle and postpone it for days or forever if I need to. It annoys everyone that I don’t have to finish at one time! But for this movie, I did (even watched the credits) It takes a lot to keep my attention on one thing. I don’t know, I used to like movies alot, but a few years ago I just stopped watching TV and movies all together! (at least the fiction ones, which are almost all of them) Two hours in a room watching something fake, just doesn’t seem appealing to me anymore.
This is the best movie I have seen in a looooong time. 
Glad I was in bed stranded during a minor snowstorm in Texas, right when it came on…good old TBS. Here is a synopsis and some some of the good quotes. Oh and my new favorite word, which I aspire to have one day (very much)…gumption
Why I had to post this…. I don’t know? Maybe cause a single girl alone around the holidays needs all the help she can get. So, I’m just helping point any who care in the right direction at blockbuster. Who doesn’t laugh at Jack Black? The movie is a good reminder that it’s never too late to fall in love. Maybe you will even avoid the drama by waiting a bit longer than most. There is nothing wrong with being picky!
However one of the best lines is “Did you know after the age of 35, you are more likely to git hit by a terrorist than get marrried” I think it was a joke…
Two beautiful women, Amanda Woods (Cameron Diaz) and Iris Simpkins (Kate Winslet) both find themselves at the end of failed relationships just before Christmas. Amanda decides to take a two week vacation and surfs the internet. She meets Iris online, and they agree to swap their homes for the holidays. Amanda lives in Los Angeles and Iris lives in the countryside of Surrey, England. Even though they now have a change of scenery and want no contact with men, they are both still depressed and lonely. But things are about to change when Iris’ brother Graham (Jude Law) drops by Iris’ house and meets Amanda. On the other side of the world, Iris meets Miles (Jack Black) a film composer. Romance is in the air and sparks are about to fly. Douglas Young (the-movie-guy)
the best quotes: ” I have a cow and I sew. How’s that for “hard to relate to”?”
“I understand feeling as small and as insignificant as humanly possible. And how it can actually ache in places you didn’t know you had inside you. And it doesn’t matter how many new haircuts you get, or gyms you join, or how many glasses of chardonnay you drink with your girlfriends… you still go to bed every night going over every detail and wonder what you did wrong or how you could have misunderstood. And how in the hell for that brief moment you could think that you were that happy. And sometimes you can even convince yourself that he’ll see the light and show up at your door. And after all that, however long all that may be, you’ll go somewhere new. And you’ll meet people who make you feel worthwhile again. And little pieces of your soul will finally come back. And all that fuzzy stuff, those years of your life that you wasted, that will eventually begin to fade.”
My favorite scene goes like this (I didn’t remember every line, stole it from IMBD.com) :
Jasper: You know what I was thinking? When you get back to London, maybe we could sneak off somewhere together. Maybe Venice. You and me in Venice could be good.
Iris: Do you mean that? I mean, are you free to do that?
Jasper: Darling, I’ve just traveled halfway across the world to see you, haven’t I?
Iris: [Iris & Jasper almost kiss before Iris pulls away] Yeah, that doesn’t exactly answer my question. So, are you not with Sarah anymore? I mean, is that what you’ve come here to tell me?
Jasper: I wish you could just accept knowing how confused I am about all this.
Iris: Okay, let me translate that. So, you are still engaged to be married?
Jasper: Yes, but, I mean…
Iris: Oh, my God.
[Iris gets up from the couch]
Iris: This was a really close call. You know, I never really though I’d say this, literally never, but I think you were absolutely right about us. Very square peg, very round hole.
Jasper: You cannot mean that.
Iris: The great thing is I actually do. And I’m about three years late in telling you this, but nevertheless I need to say it. Jasper. Wait, I need the lights on. Jasper, you have never treated me right. Ever.
Jasper: Oh, babe.
Iris: Shush. You broke my heart. And you acted like somehow it was my fault, my misunderstanding, and I was too in love with you to ever be mad at you, so I just punished myself! For years! But you waltzing in here on my lovely Christmas holiday, and telling me that you don’t want to lose me whilst you’re about to get MARRIED, somehow newly entitles me to say, it’s over. This – This twisted, toxic THING between us, is finally finished! I’m miraculously done being in love with you! Ha! I’ve got a life to start living.
[Picks up Jasper's jacket, walking to the door]
Iris: And you’re not going to be in it.
Jasper: Darling.
Iris: Now I’ve got somewhere really important to be, and you have got to get the hell out.
[Opens the door]
Iris: Now!
Jasper: What exactly has got into you?
Iris: I don’t know.
[Pushes Jasper out the door]
Iris: But I think what I’ve got is something slightly resembling, gumption.
[Slams door shut in Jasper's face. Lifts hands up and screams with joy]
Arthur Abbott: Iris, in the movies we have leading ladies and we have the best friend. You, I can tell, are a leading lady, but for some reason you are behaving like the best friend.
Iris: I have found almost everything ever written about love to be true. Shakespeare said, “Journeys end in lovers meeting.” What an extraordinary thought.
Amanda: I need some peace and quiet… or whatever it is people go away for.
Graham: I have another scenario for you – I’m in love with you. I apologize for the blunt delivery, but as problematic as this fact may be, I’m in love… with YOU. I’m not feeling this because you’re leaving, and not because it feels good to feel this way… which, by the way, it does, or did before you went off like that. I can’t figure out the mathematics of this, I just know I love you. I can’t believe how many times I’m saying it! And I never thought I’d feel this way again, so that’s pretty phenomenal. And I realize that I come as a package deal: 3 for the price of 1. I know my package, perhaps in the light of day, isn’t all that wonderful, but I finally know what I want and that, in itself, is a miracle. And what I want is YOU.
Hannah: My god, I’ve just noticed how pathetic you are. Iris: Really? I’m *so* aware of it.
Iris: [in an email to Jasper] Jasper, we both know I need to fall out of love with you. Would be great if you would let me try.
Iris: I’m looking for corny in my life.
gumption
1719, Scottish, “common sense, shrewdness,” also “drive, initiative,” possibly connected with M.E. gome “attention, heed,” from O.N. gaumr “heed.” Originally “common sense, shrewdness,” sense of “initiative” is first recorded 1812.
Guts; spunk.
Doing a search for a clip from the scene, that I didn’t post above, where cameron diaz and jude’s two little girls call themselves the three musketeers...I found this ladies blog here: Lilies Have Dreams (she wrote about the movie back in 2007) Movie Highlight: The Holiday Anyway, I love the Bible verse she has on her website under her mission.
My Prayer of Mission
“The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me, because the Lord has anointed Me to preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound; to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn, to console those who mourn in Zion, to give them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified.” (Isaiah 61:1-3)
Extras from The Holiday, by Nancy Meyers
First Look Featurette
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Film Clip: “Sushi for Two”
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