‘The Holiday’ Is Finally Coming To Netflix To Get You Both Horned Up & Festive

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Just the other day I started planning my magnum opus, working title: “Why You Should Cough Up Actual Money To Rent ‘The Holiday’ This Festive Season”. Honestly, it was basically something I cooked up just so I could crap on about my second-favourite Christmas film, The Holiday.

(My first favourite is Die Hard, and if you’re going to get on my dick about it not being a Christmas movie then please read my other magnum opus right HERE.)

Anyway, I wanted to write about The Holiday and try to convince y’all to spend money and buy / rent it on the Apple or Google store or whatever your TV or laptop uses, not because I’d get anything out of doing so but just because it is well worth your hard-earned cash.

But then the festive fairies at Netflix came and made all your / my Christmas wishes come true, by announcing that the movie is finally going to be streaming on their blessed platform this holiday season.

For me, it doesn’t matter because I actually did cough up cash to buy it last year, so now I can watch it every bloody day if I really want to. But for the rest of you, it’s going to be right there, in your Netflix library from December 7. Which is a good and wonderful thing.

This movie is a deadset classic and here are all the reasons why, from my completely unbiased viewpoint.

NANCY FUCKING MEYERS

Nancy Meyers is a genius movie director, producer and writer who is responsible for many movies that you’re obsessed with. Think Father of the Bride, The Parent Trap, What Women Want, Something’s Gotta Give, It’s Complicated and The Intern. The woman is a genius and I love her deeply, I wish she was my mother (sorry mum I love you but seriously, NANCY FUCKING MEYERS.) Anyway, she is the director, producer and writer of The Holiday so it has all the trademarks of her movies: fabulous casting (often featuring one or more strong female leads), people with really nice houses, soundtracks that slap, moments that make you bark with laughter and of course bits that make you feel a lot of feelings and cry a lot. The Holiday has all of these things with the added bonus of it’s CHRISTMAS.

FOUR PEOPLE YOU WANT TO BONE

This movie has something for everyone, seriously. I remember when it came out in 2006 I had a deeply weird crush on Jack Black that I stand by to this day. There’s something delightful about the man, which SPOILER ALERT Kate Winslet clearly sees as well in this film. If Jack was my 2006 crush, then my 2018 crush is Jude Law, because have you seen him in Fantastic Beasts my LORD. Anyway, the bloke has some real daddy appeal, and in The Holiday he actually is a legit dad so that’s just catnip for hormones everywhere.

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jude law + glasses = my cause of death

I’ve already mentioned ol’ Winslet, who is just the most charming and glorious actress on the planet who has somehow had perfect skin for 25 years, and then there’s also Cameron Diaz who we’ve all been obsessed with since The Mask. Seriously, something for everyone here.

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came for cameron diaz, stayed for her singing the killers while shitfaced

A COMPLETELY UNREALISTIC STORYLINE

I’m sorry but if you want a Christmas movie featuring a realistic and believable storyline then you’re weird. Who wants to watch people stress-shopping and eating themselves into oblivion? Not me! I’d rather watch two perfect-looking women fed up with their lives decide to swap houses at the literal last minute, with one ending up in a glamorous LA mansion and the other ending up in a quaint cottage in the picturesque English countryside, ~accidentally~ finding romance along the way.

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tfw you accidentally find romance along the way

BULK ROMANCE

Did someone say “finding romance”? Well, Nancy Meyers movies (and Xmas movies, more generally) tend to feature a nice love story that we all get really invested in. And since it’s Xmas and we all deserve to be spoilt, The Holiday features not one, but TWO adorable romantic storylines. Honestly, the coldest, hardest, darkest soul could sit and watch this movie and cry into their eggnog. You cannot resist the powers of The Holiday, sorry.

AN ADORABLE DOG

Guys, look at him. Just LOOK.

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I rest my case.

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