The Holiday

Wanna sit through a 150 minute chick flick? Be my guest. This is the prototype. Sheez. What a cringe-fest.

However, there was one shining standout episode when Jude Law's character reveals he has two daughters as a widower. Normally, children are either awful actors or exploited for the cute factor, but here, the whole sequence works. Finally, more than half way through the film is an "out-of-body" series of scenes where all 4 actors (Law, Diaz and the cheer-dren) are present to the scene, not hamming it up and the saccharine abates momentarily as they lay in a bedroom tent side-by-side. It's a magnificent sequence in an otherwise dippy movie.