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If I could have anything right now at this moment, I would want Cameron Diaz's DVD collection and entertainment system in the movie The Holiday. Heck, I'd even settle for just her DVD collection. An entire living room wall . . . with just DVDs ::heart flutters::. With my awe aside, I enjoyed The Holiday a lot. At first, I was hesitant about the whole Jack Black-Kate Winslet thing, but both characters exude such hopelessness that it actually works.

Iris and Amanda react to their breakups in opposite ways. Although dumped by Jasper for another woman, Iris still fawns over him, at one point making a ridiculously pitiful attempt at killing herself by inhaling gas fumes from her stove. On the other hand, Amanda breaks up with her boyfriend, literally screaming him out of the house. What was really bad ass was that this house was Amanda's, and it wasn't a house. It was a ginormous mansion, which immediately made me like her character (aside from the DVD collection). Successful, independent chick, my goal in life. ::sigh:: Did I mention that she can't cry? There are some goofy scenes of her many purposeful attempts at achieving the water-works. Anyway, what they do have in common is how they deal with their break-ups. Both just want to get away, so thanks to the glorious Internet, they find each other and make a house swap, and since this is a chick flick, they meet more boys.

This movie was able to garner a likability for its characters despite the reality, or I should say, fantasy, of the situation. Amanda was able to find love in a man who understood her need for support yet maintain her Independence while Iris needed to, first, get over her obsession with Jasper and realize that she could be her own leading lady.

For a chick flick, this had all the right "Aweeeeeee that's so cute!!!" moments. A great movie to see when you want to feel happy in love.