The Holiday (2006), is a romantic comedy film. It was written and produced by Nancy Meyers. Kate Winslet, Cameron Diaz, Jack Black and Jude Law starring the movie. The theme of the movie is falling in love with a total stranger.

Amanda Woods (Cameron Diaz) and Iris Simpkins (Kate Winslet) are both in their thirties. They have a lot in common, they both work hard and have a past in a failing relationship. Amanda lives in Los Angeles and Iris lives in Surrey. Just before the beginning of the Christmas break Amanda wants to get out from L.A. and decides to sign up in a house exchange. She and Iris exchange their homes, which means Amanda will be living in Iris’ home in Surrey for two weeks, while Iris is staying in L.A. for the same time. While living in Surrey, Amanda meets Iris’ brother Graham (Jude Law) who is a widow and has two children. After a while Amanda and Graham fall in love. While in L.A. living a glorious two week period, Iris meets Miles (Jack Black) a friend of Amanda’s ex-husband. Miles is dating an actress, but soon find outs she is cheating on him. Miles and Iris start spending time together and eventually fall in love. Nearing the end of the exchange period, the two couples start thinking about their future and how they will work everything out.

The soundtrack of the film was mainly produced by Hans Zimmer. While watching the movie you really don’t pay any special kind of attention to the music. The music is calm and quiet, basically it is just played on the background to help to set mood in movie and making a romantic atmosphere.

I think the cast was chosen well for this movie. Both Winslet and Diaz act the role well as two women with middle life crisis. Law and Black also act their roles well as two men who have had their problems in life too.