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Last Holiday (2006) 6.1
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Metascore: 52/100
Reviews: 112 user | 98 critic | 27 from Metacritic.com After she's diagnosed with a terminal illness, a shy woman decides to take a European vacation. Director:Wayne Wang |
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In morte veritas. Georgia Byrd clerks at a New Orleans department store. She defers pleasure: cooks gourmet meals, eats Lean Cuisine; likes a co-worker in silence; has savings, but hasn't left Louisiana. All that changes when a CT Scan discloses she has three weeks to live. She cashes her savings and heads to Europe's Grandhotel Pupp, where Chef Didier presides. She checks into the Presidential Suite, orders everything on the menu, snowboards, and comes to the attention of the chef and the hotel's powerful American guests: a Congressman, a Senator, a retail magnate, and his mistress. She has nothing to lose, so she tells them what she thinks. Will the truth set them free? Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
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Country:
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13 January 2006 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
As Férias da Minha Vida See more »Box Office
Budget:
$45,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$24,059 (New Zealand) (26 May 2006)Gross:
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by Madeleine Peyroux, Jesse Harris & Larry Klein
Performed by Madeleine Peyroux
Courtesy of Rounder Records
By Arrangement with Ocean Park Music Group
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All the dishes served in the movie were prepared by Food Network chefs who traveled with the crew to do the cooking. They also taught Queen Latifah some basic cooking techniques so she would look like a professional chef in the movie. See more »Goofs
When Georgia hits her head and is taken in for a CAT scan, she is wearing a black sweater and white collared shirt. When the doctor discovers she needs a second scan, she is taken back through the machine, but she is wearing the tan outfit from an earlier scene in the movie. Both scans are depicted to be on the same day, but she is wearing 2 very different outfits. See more »Quotes
Ms. Burns: Who was it who said 'Adversity is the stone on which I sharpen my blade?'See more »
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The end credits show us how everybody in the movie's futures turned out. See more »Soundtracks
"Don't Wait Too Long"by Madeleine Peyroux, Jesse Harris & Larry Klein
Performed by Madeleine Peyroux
Courtesy of Rounder Records
By Arrangement with Ocean Park Music Group
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Currently, we have our fair share of pointless actions films (absent of any plot and decent script) or films that are trying to take themselves too seriously or films that are too dark and downbeat or films which try to be funny but are not so it was a pleasure to go with my family recently to see Last Holiday.
Queen Latifah comfortably heads a cast who delivered solid, believable performances across the board (and some new faces to me). OK, the story was a bit contrived and some sequences were a bit far fetched (the snow board ride for instance) but it was a great deal of fun.
The story, which looked at people's aspirations and dreams and the need to take every day as it comes, to enjoy life to the full (as we don't know what is round the corner) was played out with great passion and skill. Latifah's comedy acting (loved the raised eyebrow and sideways glances) was relaxed and easily won over the sympathy of the audience. Great, also, to see Gerard Depardieu again as I haven't seen him for a while.
Refreshingly set in snowy Prague, good Direction and lovely Cinematography. I recommend that you see it.