Holiday [DVD]

IT WAS A NICE FILM TO WATCH

This is an enjoyable film which is rarely seen but should not be overlooked. With a young Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant it has to be worth a look.While on a break Johnny Case - Grant - meets and becomes engaged to Julia. He knows nothing of her background, it's enough that he loves her. The film opens with him arriving back home and getting ready to go and meet her. That's when he finds out what a wealthy family background she comes from and Daddy won't let just anyone marry into the family. In the family mansion he is introduced to Julia's older sister, Linda, who is a kindred spirit to his. Though Linda and Johnny grow close, Linda loves her sister and will do all she can to help her overcome their father's reluctance to the couple marrying. Johnny meanwhile, though he feels drawn to Linda, feels he loves Julia and she loves him.The trouble is Johnny is a free spirit and though clever in his own field and doing well, wants to leave the rat race for a year or so to find out what he really wants to do. Julia is not so sure.Great comedic characters are Johnnys best pals Nick and Susan Potter.If you like Grant and Hepburn and enjoy films like Roman Holiday you should enjoy this too

Like all the best comedy, the full effect of 'Holiday' arises out of the fact that it juxtoposes humour with real and unpaletable truths. Grant and Hepburn as Johnny and Linda - he the idealistic poor-boy-come-good and she the unmaterialistic black sheep of a wealthy family - battle against a fickle world concerned with material wealth and living out the WASP dream.Edward Everett Horton as Linda's traditionalist father Mr Seaton and Doris Nolan as Linda's conventional sister Julia - initially Johnny's fiancee - provide the obstacles in the path of the the pair's voyage of self discovery. Brutally broken by the phony world he lives in but eager to aid Johnny and Linda's escape is Linda's dipsomaniac brother Ned (Lew Ayers), proving that theory that many a profound truth was spoken by a drunk. Rounding off a great ensemble cast are Johnny's friends Nick and Susan, who provide a Greek chorus for the battleground of idealism vs convention.'Holiday' provides a cutting satire of the wealth culture that is as pertinent today as it was sixty years ago and the poignancy of Linda and Ned's oppression offset by her fiesty optimism provides more than enough emotional drive to power the film. Then of course there's the comedy: fast-cracking one-liners, great physical gags, a marvellous array of facial expressions and several acrobatic and musical feats provide something for all tastes, held together by an intelligent script. Hepburn as usual shines with enthusiam and sly wit, Grant is at his most animated, bemused and naive, and Lew Ayers puts in a wonderful performance.How anyone can say that 'old' films are no longer appealing or relevant to a modern audience is baffling in the face of an offering like 'Holiday.' Upon first viewing it immediately became one of my top 3 films of all time. Having seen it however it becomes obvious why Hepburn was at the time branded 'box-office poison' - no society is tolerant of such a sharp and witty critique of its values as the film provides. Time may have made us more appreciative of 'Holiday's' greatness, but don't fool yourself that this critique doesn't apply to you to!

Thought I'd give this a try after enjoying 'Bringing up Baby' but this is very dissapointing in comparison, to me anyway.Grant's character/acting is just duff and awkward, if you find watching a grown man doing a front roll funny, without any situation surrounding it to make it funny ,then maybe this is your ideal film!Additional problem is that the story is just so slight there is really nothing there.I only gave it 3 stars because of the 'ted' character who did make me chuckle and likewise the interaction with him and Hepburn which at times is great.

Great entertainment value, with a special mention for the parts played by Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant. Releasedin 1938, this is one of the earlier films of the so-called golden period. Thoroughly enjoyable. It has a high rating in my film library.

Lovey old film!

Quel bon envoi. Merci. K hepburn parfaite à 20 ans, d’une fougue et d’un génie dramatique incomparable sur une durée de ..60 ans !

Dieser Film verdient jeden seiner 5 Sterne: einen für Hepburn, einen für Grant, einen für die Tiefe des Films, der nicht seicht ist, obwohl es sich um eine Komödie handelt, einen dafür, dass er uns etwas zeigt, ohne belehrend zu sein und einen für den Rest des Films, der für mich so lebendig war, dass ich während des Films immer wartete, er möge noch weitergehen, als er bereits zu Ende war. Er schafft es einfach auf leise Art und Weise zu fesseln. Das ist ein Klassiker der Filmkunst, der ohne Zweifel als Perle bezeichnet werden kann, weil er auf eine eigenartige Art und Weise modern anzumutet, obwohl er doch schon so viele Jahre auf dem Buckel hat. Es liegt am Thema, das für die damalige Zeit ungewöhnlich und mutig erscheint, nämlich das in Frage zu stellen, was einem einfach in den Schoss gelegt wird. Erfolg und Geltung für etwas aufzugeben, was einem viel schwieriger vorkommt, nämlich seinen eigenen Traum zu leben und auf Konventionen zu verzichten. Wenn das auch heute viel mehr dem entspricht, was Menschen leben, war es damals sicher etwas Herausragendes und wie Cary Grant und Katherine Hepburn das darstellen, könnte bzw. konnte keine bessere Entsprechung finden. Respekt!

Du grand cukor... Un des meilleurs films du duo fabuleux de indiscretions et l'impossible mr bebe et sylvia scarlet... Une comedie moins delire que les autres, plus intellectuelle, mais non moins interessante... Le grand cinema ne meurt jamais...

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