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Article: To enjoy 'The Holiday,' book a flight of fancy; This Nancy Meyers flick about two women who trade places isn't as romantic as it is silly.(FEATURES)(WEEKEND)
- Article from:
- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- December 8, 2006
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Byline: Peter Rainer Film critic of The Christian Science Monitor
Sappy, sugary, star-driven, "The Holiday" is a confection right off the Hollywood assembly line. That is the Nancy Meyers assembly line. As co-writer of "Father of the Bride," "Baby Boom," "Irreconcilable Differences," and "Private Benjamin," and later as writer-director of "The Parent Trap" and "What Women Want" and director of "Something's Gotta Give," Meyers has carved out a niche for herself. She creates slapstick weepies in which women behave badly because men behave worse.
I don't think I've ever entirely believed a single minute of a Meyers movie, but that may be the point: Her ...