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LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA Last year, as he was preparing to shoot Flags of Our Fathers, his caustic epic about the U.S. invasion of Iwo Jima, Clint Eastwood got a script by his researcher, Iris Yamashita, about the soldiers on the other side of the battle and the losing side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holiday Movies | 12/10/2006 | See Source »

A quick internet search leads her to Iris, whose self-pity has induced contemplations of suicide, and with nothing in common but their mutual state of rejection and a love of playing air guitar to Top 40 hits, the two women decide to swap houses for the holidays.

Author: By Nayeli E. Rodriguez, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: MOVIE REVIEW: The Holiday | 12/7/2006 | See Source »

Amanda suffers from acute culture shock before Graham (a smoldering and sensitive Jude Law) takes her frolicking in the English countryside. Iris does water aerobics with an old Hollywood screenwriter, Arthur Abbott (veteran actor Eli Wallach, “Mystic River”), whose creaky wisdom leads her to Miles...

Author: By Nayeli E. Rodriguez, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: MOVIE REVIEW: The Holiday | 12/7/2006 | See Source »

The familiar and practically obligatory scenes of any romantic comedy become endearing when they give us the accurate awkwardness of Iris and Miles’s first date, in which he attempts to make light of an “accidental boob graze,” and the hilarious spectacle...

Author: By Nayeli E. Rodriguez, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: MOVIE REVIEW: The Holiday | 12/7/2006 | See Source »

It isn’t the material, but the proper execution of a fluffy film that matters, so casting is key—plus, it doesn’t hurt that Myers wrote the script with her leading actors in mind. Jude Law is an obvious choice as the romantic...

Author: By Nayeli E. Rodriguez, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: MOVIE REVIEW: The Holiday | 12/7/2006 | See Source »

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