The Holiday

Arthur says to Iris that 'Cary Grant (I)' (qv) told him he came from Surrey, whereas Grant was born in Bristol, hence the statue erected to him there.

Amanda's scarf/clothes in the scene at the end when she goes to meet Graham in the house When talking with Graham at his home, after his daughters have gone to bed, Amanda's earrings change length (position) throughout the conversation with him.

The earrings are a gold chain that slides through the ear lobe.

More than halfway in the movie, after Amanda and Graham's meal at the restaurant.

When Amanda gets out of the 4x4, the seat belt shoulder strap adjustment goes down, then back up on the post between the doors.

When Amanada gets out of the car to run back to the house, the road they just drove down does not have any tire tracks.

The position of Amanda's bra strap changes shot to shot while she's talking with Graham in bed.

When Graham is wearing his glasses the kitchen after the first night with Amanda, a camera light is reflected in the close-up of his face.

In the "Chanukah Party" scene, the candles start very short, then grow in the next shot.

Other irregularities in the levels of the candles are also noticeable.

When Amanda is drinking her hot chocolate with marshmallows with Graham and the girls, she gets her milk mustache.

The milk is small mustache in the middle.

In the very next shot, when she hasn't drunk any more, the mustache is large and covers the length of her top lip.

Then in the next shot it is small again.

Although the English scenes are set in Surrey, the cottage is typically Cotswold, as is the "restaurant" used in lunch date scene, which is ironic as "The Cotswolds" was first rejected by Amanda.

When Graham and Amanda are in the car after their date, Amanda says that she is leaving in nine days and doesn't want to make things complicated.

But later that night, at Graham's house, she says that she is leaving in one week.

When Amanda is looking through a list of countries to visit on the internet, the icon next to South Africa is a picture of the old South African flag, which was replaced in 1994! However, it may just be that she is looking at a website that's not up-to-date! The levels of liquid in the glasses change from the shot's taken from behind Iris to the shot's taken behind Arthur when they are having dinner.

When 'Kate Winslet' (qv) and 'Jack Black (I)' (qv) are in the video store, a shot behind Winslet is labelled as a rack with "Drama" but you can clearly see the films _13 Going on 30 (2004)_ (qv) and _10 Things I Hate About You (1999)_ (qv) which are comedies not dramas.

The middle knob on the stove is positioned side to side when Iris is in the kitchen, but after she lights the match, you see a close up of the knobs when she turns the right one.

In that shot the middle knob is positioned straight up and down.

When the computer "dings" and you see the front of the stove as she turns off the gas, the middle knob is again positioned side to side.

When Iris is running around the house the way her scarf is tied changes from the movie room to the exercise room and back when she is seen running up the stairs.

According to the commentary the scenes were shot separately.

When Iris arrives in L.

and is taking a taxi to Amanda's house, the cab drives along with the ocean to its right and turns left onto Sunset Blvd - this means that it is driving south.

To get to Sunset Blvd from LAX airport, however, one would need to drive north.

When Amanda is sitting in the limousine at the end of the movie (at exactly at 2:00:00 runtime) we see from the backseat of the car that all instruments show zero.

When Amanda pours herself a glass of white wine, the "glugging" sound effect begins well before air starts entering the bottle.

When Iris first views Amanda's bedroom there is no acrylic bench at the foot of the bed.

When she is in bed and discovers the motorized blinds and the camera pans away from the bed, there it is at the foot of the bed.

When Amanda is having lunch with Graham, the position of her hair on the left side (our right) changes between in front of her ear and tucked behind, between each question she asks/answers.

While Iris and Arthur are talking in his office, through the office door window, you can see the sun/shadows change position on the car.

When Amanda pulls up to the shop in her car after her wild ride, the wide shot from outside the car shows her putting her right hand up to her forehead, leaving the left down.

When they cut to a close shot of her from the front, the hands are reversed, and she brings her left hand down from her forehead and the right is near her side.

As Arthur and Iris talk in his office, his Oscar (behind him) faces left, then faces them, then faces left again.

When it faces left, it is normal-size, but when it faces them, it is smaller-than-normal in relation to its base, but when it faces left again, is normal-size again.

When 'Eli Wallach' (qv) walks up the steps in the auditorium he gives a thumbs up with his right hand, immediately he turns and has his speech in his right hand.

When Amanda is lying in bed in England and sees her advert on the television, it is clear she is watching _"Little Britain" (2003)_ (qv) before it comes on.

'Little Britain' is broadcast on the BBC in England, which gets its money from TV licensing and does not show adverts.

(Although it may however have been shown on the cable channels Dave or G.

which are both commercial networks which do have adverts.

) Iris steps off to the side and you clearly see her walk over to the other side of the aisle.

(When Iris walks Arthur down the aisle at the ceremony, she steps off to the right.

In the next shot, she is on the other side of the aisle.

) When Amanda and Graham are together, Amanda picks up his phone and reads the caller ID "Sophie" and later in the movie "Olivia".

In this day and age, many young children have cell phones.

With the children's mother having died, it is likely that Graham would allow each to have a cell phone in order to reach him when they needed to.

The Film is set in December yet the sun is clearly in the position for summer, Longitude 34.

2 Latitude 96.

In the beginning of the movie, when Miles is producing a song for a movie, he hits all the wrong keys even though the computer screen shows the correct notes.

When Amanda is searching for her holiday, on the net appears a window with the countries' flags.

The flag for Poland is not as it should be.

Iris's house is constructed of a flat, smooth slate-like stone.

However, in England, the main building material for houses such as Iris's would have been flint, a fist-sized gray rock, that would have given the house a rough pebbly look.

In the scene where Iris is looking through Amanda's DVD collection (approximately 34 minutes into the movie) there are two identical copies of _The Glass House (2001)_ (qv) visible on the same shelf just a few DVDs apart.

When Iris is on the plane to L.

A, she is replying to a message from Jasper on her blackberry.

When she has sent it, there is a quick shot at the 'message sent' and the date is clearly shown as Weds 18th Dec.

However, the film is set for Xmas 2006 and December the 18th 2006 isn't a Wednesday, neither is December 2005.

When Amanda first meets Graham, at approximately 1:10 AM, she says that she arrived around six hours earlier.

That would be 7:00 PM.

It would have been completely dark outside at that time of year in that location.

Yet Amanda was seen arriving at the cottage while it is still daylight.

- PLOTWhen Amanda is first taken to the cottage she has to walk as the limo can't get up the path, later when she wants to go back to the cottage she has to walk as the limo can't make it up the path, however when she is going home after the holiday the (exact same) limo is waiting outside the gate for her at the top of the lane it apparently can't get up.

When Iris opens Aurther's door with the key the hinge is on the left (same when she brings the orange).

When she comes to take him to the ceremony the hinge has moved to the other side of the door.

When Amanda is first taken to the cottage she has to walk as the limo can't get up the path, later when she wants to go back to the cottage she has to walk as the limo can't make it up the path, however when she is going home after the holiday the (exact same) limo is waiting outside the gate for her at the top of the lane it apparently can't get up.

However, the driver claims that it would be difficult to turn around, not impossible.

It is likely that he arrived some time before and turned around before Amanda left the house.

Near the start of the movie when Ethan heads upstairs to talk to Amanda, she throws a trainer at him.

It disappears from where it lands in the next few shots, then reappears when Amanda throws the second one.

Then when we next see Ethan and the camera tracks across the room, both trainers have disappeared.

When Amanda is searching for her holiday, on the net appears a window with the countries' flags.

The old South African flag is used instead of the current.

At the end of the movie when they are all at Graham's house, Olivia comes down the stairs to cuddle her Aunt Iris, Aunt Iris subsequently says to Olivia "give me a kiss Sophie".

Nancy Meyers writes knowingly facile scripts, and then attempts to 'cute' them up with show-bizzy chatter and characters who can be described completely by their occupations: Newspaper Writer, Movie Advertising Boss, Book Editor, Film Composer. Meyers plugs in the gaps with nostalgic soundtrack choices and clean, glossy locations.

I never winced at dialog so many times during a film in my life. "The weather is officially crazy" uttered to Kate's character by Jack Black's on leaving the Chanukkah party...

This movies starts out with two women living in two different parts of the country and living totally different lifestyles but facing similar issues with relationships. Cameron Diaz plays Amanda Woods in the story and Kate Winslet plays Iris Simpkins.

Screenwriter/director Nancy Meyers continues to defy all romantic comedy conventions by doing a few things that are often missed by screenwriters of the genre. Instead of focusing on incredulous romances and meet-cutes, Meyers is quick to focus on the characters involved in these on-screen relationships, developing them by closely following their mannerisms before they become involved in the film's core romances.

Put together a great cast, good writing and acting and throw in some nostalgia and you have the perfect rom com. Makes you wonder why most Rom Coms fail so miserably when this formula seems so obvious.

A long time ago, writer/director Nacy Meyers did a glorious romantic comedy, "What women want". It was funny, it was romantic and it had its main actors in completely unexpected roles.

It is a simple love story, but it is entertaining and fun.

The Holiday (2006): Dir: Nancy Meyers / Cast: Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Jack Black, Eli Wallach: Feel-good romantic comedy about escaping emotional stress and embracing new challenges and successes. Cameron Diaz plays a Hollywood producer who just ended a bad relationship.

I can't quite put my finger on exactly why, but I struggled to connect with these incredibly attractive, rich and successful characters. Aside from their temporary romantic struggles, these are the kind of people who make me resent my own life.