The holiday [videorecording] / Columbia Pictures and Universal Pictures present ; in association with Relativity Media, a Waverly Films production, a film by Nancy Meyers ; executive producer, Suzanne Farwell ; produced by Nancy Meyers, Bruce A. Block ; written and directed by Nancy Meyers.
Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Jack Black, Eli Wallach, Edward Burns, Rufus Sewell. Restricted to home use or face-to-face teaching.
Contents:
Special features : Optional audio commentary with Nancy Meyers & cast ; Foreign exchange: the making of 'The Holiday.'
Summary:
Amanda lives in Los Angeles and is a movie trailer editor. Iris lives in Surrey, England and is a journalist. The two live five thousand miles apart and have never met, but both are dealing with the same problem: men. Amanda just broke up with her cheating boyfriend. Iris has pined for her ex. Amanda comes upon a website that advocates home exchange and the two decide to swap houses for two weeks at Christmas - both with a goal to forget their troubled love lives. Love ends up finding them anyways. Amanda starts a romance with Iris' older brother, Graham, a book editor and Iris starts a romance with a friend of Amanda's, movie composer Miles. With new found romance, both their lives change forever.
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