The Holiday (2006)

Writer and director Nancy Meyers creates an adult Christmas romcom. Iris (Kate Winslet) and Amanda (Cameron Diaz) find themselves bereft of the men they thought they wanted in their lives just as the holiday period arrives. Iris lives in Surrey, England. Amanda lives in Los Angeles. The gift here is the internet, and more specifically a house-exchange website. In a couple of clicks and flights, they find themselves traveling over 6,000 miles (er, 9656 kilometres) to cities and homes neither are familiar with. Comedic complications occur, surrounded by Meyers’s clipped, sometimes witty, and smart dialogue. New romances occur as well. For

Iris it is Graham (Jude Law) and for Amanda it is Miles (Jack Black). A further complication is that their distant holidays are time-limited, as are these new romances. What to do? Meyers will deliver a mutually satisfying resolution.