The Green Mile
The Green Mile also finds tenderness in an unlikely setting, but its prison-cell compassion and supernatural weight are far removed from The Holiday’s seasonal domestic comedy.
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The Holiday
Two women, one American and one British, swap homes at Christmastime following bad breakups. Each woman finds romance with a local man but realizes that the imminent return home may end the relationship.
7.1TMDB community score
What it’s about — and how it feels
Two women trade homes after painful breakups, crossing from Los Angeles to an English village just as Christmas settles in. Nancy Meyers lets the paired romances unfold through cozy domestic spaces, dry comic detours and conversations about heartbreak, self-respect and the stories people tell themselves about love.
Christmas home swapParallel second chancesDry romantic comedyComfortable domestic detail
Where it stands
#4
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Details
- Directed by
- Nancy Meyers
- Runtime
- 2h 16m
- Starring
- Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet, Jude Law
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More on your wavelength
Three titles that echo something distinctive in this one, with a quick note on the connection.
The Others
Both films use a large, characterful house to shape the mood, though The Others turns its shadowy rooms into a source of dread while The Holiday makes home feel like a fresh start.
About Time
About Time shares The Holiday’s warm British setting and interest in love as part of everyday life; its time-travel premise gives that reflection a speculative structure absent from the home-swap romance.