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Holiday (1938)

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Reviews Counted:15

Fresh:15

Rotten:0

Average Rating:9.1/10

Runtime: 1 hr 36 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant team up in this classic George Cukor comedy about love that finally finds its mark. Johnny (Grant) has just met the girl of his dreams, so he proposes; she happily... Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant team up in this classic George Cukor comedy about love that finally finds its mark. Johnny (Grant) has just met the girl of his dreams, so he proposes; she happily accepts. However, he soon discovers that his lovely bride-to-be, Julia (Doris Nolan), comes from a wealthy Park Avenue family, with a father who likes to make all the decisions and to whom she seems incapable of defying. Her unconventional sister, Linda (Hepburn), knows she wants something different from a mapped-out life; she also discovers she's falling in love with Johnny. Grant's effervescent performance is timeless, and his onscreen chemistry with Hepburn electric. Based on the 1928 play by Philip Barry, and the second time the story was adapted to the screen, this version established the rules for intelligent romantic comedies and provided a template from which the deft Cukor could further expand. [More]

Starring: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, Doris Nolan, Lew Ayres

Starring: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, Doris Nolan, Lew Ayres, Edward Everett Horton, Henry Kolker, Binnie Barnes, Jean Dixon, Henry Daniell, Charles Trowbridge

Director: George Cukor

Director: George Cukor
Producer: Everett Riskin
Screenwriter: Donald Ogden Stewart, Sidney Buchman
Composer: Sidney Cutner

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03/12/04
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02/25/05
Daniel M. Kimmel
Daniel M. Kimmel
Worcester Telegram & Gazette

This is one of Grant's best performances and one of the best film's Cukor directed.

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08/05/05
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07/14/07
Joe Lozito
Joe Lozito
Big Picture Big Sound

Hepburn seems more forced each year, but the film is good.

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12/01/02
Ken Hanke
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Charming and melancholic, Holiday %u2026 breezing by in comparison to the more loquacious %u2026 banter-fest, The Philadelphia Story.

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02/17/06
Kent Turner
Kent Turner
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Exquisite performances.

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10/03/02
Nell Minow
Nell Minow
Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies

Spellbinding without being a mystery, ravishing without being ornate, heartachy despite being a lovely comedy, and full of surprise gestures and unexpected flights of feeling.

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12/15/03
Nick Davis
Nick Davis
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Why is The Philadelphia Story so well known, while the equally unforgettable Holiday, from the same director, writers, and leads, suffers comparative neglect?

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