Saturday 12 December 2020

The Holiday (2006 Nancy Meyers & scr)

Here's what's wrong with The Holiday. 1. Jack Black is miscast. He and Kate - despite her hard work - display no chemistry. 2. Law's children are miscast. They come over as pukey and make their scenes icky. 3. The dog that comes and goes. I have a feeling the dog was more present in the film - for example the moment Diaz enters the cottage - but was edited out. I'm going to ask Nancy about that.

Luckily these things are outweighed by Kate's relationship with Eli Wallach and the Law-Diaz pairing.

It's also really well edited by Joe Hutshing and photographed by Meyers regular Dean Cundey.

There's no dog in this film.

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