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The Holiday

Index The Holiday

The Holiday is a 2006 American romantic comedy film written, produced and directed by Nancy Meyers. [1]

109 relations: A Knight's Tale, Amazon (company), Atli Örvarsson, Be Kind Rewind, Bill Macy, Box Office Mojo, Brentwood, Los Angeles, Bridget Jones, Bruce A. Block, Business executive, Cameo appearance, Cameron Diaz, Chick flick, Christmas and holiday season, Clark Gable, Columbia Pictures, Comedy film, Composer, Culver City, California, Dean Cundey, Driving Miss Daisy, Dustin Hoffman, Editing, Edward Burns, Eli Wallach, England, Entertainment Weekly, Flixster, Godalming, Goldie Hawn, Hans Zimmer, Heitor Pereira, Henry Jackman, Herb Alpert, His Girl Friday, Historical period drama, Home exchange, HuffPost, IMDb, Imogen Heap, Improvisation, Jack Black, James Franco, Joe Hutshing, John Krasinski, Jon Prescott, Jude Law, Kate Winslet, Kathryn Hahn, Kill the Director, ..., Leading man, Lindsay Lohan, List of films featuring fictional films, London, Lorne Balfe, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Times, Love Actually, Meet cute, Metacritic, Nancy Meyers, New York Observer, NRJ, Owen Gleiberman, Pasadena, California, Relativity Media, Rex Reed, Richard Neutra, Romance film, Romantic comedy, Rotten Tomatoes, Rufus Sewell, San Francisco Chronicle, San Marino, California, Santa Ana winds, School of Rock, Science fiction film, Screwball comedy film, Shannyn Sossamon, Shelley Berman, Shere, Silver Lake, Los Angeles, Single parent, Something's Gotta Give (film), Sony Pictures Studios, Soundtrack, Studio system, Surrey, Tara Road (film), Teen Choice Award for Choice Hissy Fit, Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie – Romance, Teen Choice Awards, The Daily Telegraph, The Graduate, The Parent Trap (1998 film), The Philadelphia Story (film), The Wombats, Tiffany & Co., Trailer (promotion), Universal Pictures, USA Today, Varèse Sarabande, Variety (magazine), Wallace Neff, Waverly Films, Westside (Los Angeles County), What Women Want, 4th Irish Film & Television Awards, 9th ALMA Awards. Expand index (59 more) »

A Knight's Tale

A Knight's Tale is a 2001 American medieval adventure-comedy film written, produced, and directed by Brian Helgeland.

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Amazon (company)

Amazon.com, Inc., doing business as Amazon, is an American electronic commerce and cloud computing company based in Seattle, Washington that was founded by Jeff Bezos on July 5, 1994.

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Atli Örvarsson

Atli Örvarsson (born 7 July 1970) is an Icelandic film score composer.

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Be Kind Rewind

Be Kind Rewind is a 2008 comedy film written and directed by Michel Gondry, and starring Jack Black, Mos Def, Melonie Diaz, Danny Glover, Mia Farrow and Sigourney Weaver.

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Bill Macy

Bill Macy (born Wolf Martin Garber; May 18, 1922) is an American television, film and stage actor, born in Revere, Massachusetts, to Mollie (née Friedopfer) and Michael Garber, a manufacturer.

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Box Office Mojo

Founded in 1999, Box Office Mojo tracks box office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way, and publishes the data on its website.

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Brentwood, Los Angeles

Brentwood is a neighborhood in the Westside of Los Angeles, California.

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Bridget Jones

Bridget Jones is a franchise based on a fictional character of the same name created by British writer Helen Fielding.

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Bruce A. Block

Bruce A. Block is a film producer, author and visual consultant whose career spans 30+ years.

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Business executive

A business executive is a person responsible for running an organization, although the exact nature of the role varies depending on the organization.

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Cameo appearance

A cameo role or cameo appearance (often shortened to just cameo) is a brief appearance or voice part of a known person in a work of the performing arts, typically unnamed or appearing as themselves.

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Cameron Diaz

Cameron Michelle Diaz (born August 30, 1972) is a former American actress, producer, author, and fashion model.

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Chick flick

Chick flick is a slang term for the film genre dealing mainly with love and romance which is targeted to a female audience.

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Christmas and holiday season

The Christmas season, also called the festive season, or the holiday season (mainly in the U.S. and Canada; often simply called the holidays),, is an annually recurring period recognized in many Western and Western-influenced countries that is generally considered to run from late November to early January.

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Clark Gable

William Clark Gable (February 1, 1901 – November 16, 1960) was an American film actor and military officer, often referred to as "The King of Hollywood" or just simply as "The King".

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Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (commonly known as Columbia Pictures and Columbia, formerly CBC Film Sales Corporation, and stylized as COLUMBIA) is an American film studio, production company and film distributor that is a member of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, a division of Sony Entertainment's Sony Pictures subsidiary of the Japanese multinational conglomerate Sony Corporation.

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Comedy film

Comedy is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humor.

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Composer

A composer (Latin ''compōnō''; literally "one who puts together") is a musician who is an author of music in any form, including vocal music (for a singer or choir), instrumental music, electronic music, and music which combines multiple forms.

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Culver City, California

Culver City is a city in Los Angeles County, California.

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Dean Cundey

Dean Raymond Cundey, A.S.C. (born March 12, 1946) is an American cinematographer and film director.

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Driving Miss Daisy

Driving Miss Daisy is a 1989 American comedy-drama film directed by Bruce Beresford and written by Alfred Uhry, based on Uhry's play of the same name.

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Dustin Hoffman

Dustin Lee Hoffman (born August 8, 1937) is an American actor and director, with a career in film, television, and theater since 1960.

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Editing

Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written, visual, audible, and film media used to convey information.

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Edward Burns

Edward Fitzgerald Burns (born January 29, 1968) is an American actor, producer, writer, and director best known for appearing in several films including Saving Private Ryan (1998), 15 Minutes (2001), Life or Something Like It (2002), Confidence (2003), A Sound of Thunder (2005), The Holiday (2006), One Missed Call (2008), 27 Dresses (2008), Man on a Ledge (2012), Friends with Kids (2012), and Alex Cross (2012).

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Eli Wallach

Eli Herschel Wallach (December 7, 1915 – June 24, 2014) was an American film, television and stage actor whose career spanned more than six decades, beginning in the late 1940s.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated as EW) is an American magazine, published by Meredith Corporation, that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books and popular culture.

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Flixster

Flixster was an American social movie site for discovering new movies, learning about movies, and meeting others with similar tastes in movies.

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Godalming

Godalming is a historic market town, civil parish and administrative centre of the Borough of Waverley in Surrey, England, SSW of Guildford.

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Goldie Hawn

Goldie Jeanne Hawn (born November 21, 1945) is an American actress, producer, and occasional singer.

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Hans Zimmer

Hans Florian Zimmer (born 12 September 1957) is a German film score composer and record producer.

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Heitor Pereira

Heitor Teixeira Pereira (born November 29, 1960), or Heitor TP, is a Brazilian composer, who played with Simply Red and several famous musicians, like Elton John, Rod Stewart, k.d. lang and Jack Johnson; and is currently working as a film music composer at Hans Zimmer's studio.

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Henry Jackman

Henry Pryce Jackman (born 1974) is an English composer, conductor, arranger, pianist, musician, and songwriter.

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Herb Alpert

Herb Alpert (born March 31, 1935) is an American jazz musician most associated with the group variously known as Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass, or TJB.

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His Girl Friday

His Girl Friday is a 1940 American screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks, from an adaptation by Charles Lederer, Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur of the play The Front Page by Hecht and MacArthur.

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Historical period drama

The term historical period drama (also historical drama, period drama, costume drama, and period piece) refers to a work set in a past time period, usually used in the context of film and television.

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Home exchange

Home exchange, also known as house swapping, is a form of lodging in which two parties agree to offer each other homestays for a set period of time.

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HuffPost

HuffPost (formerly The Huffington Post and sometimes abbreviated HuffPo) is a liberal American news and opinion website and blog that has both localized and international editions.

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IMDb

IMDb, also known as Internet Movie Database, is an online database of information related to world films, television programs, home videos and video games, and internet streams, including cast, production crew and personnel biographies, plot summaries, trivia, and fan reviews and ratings.

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Imogen Heap

Imogen Jennifer Heap (born 9 December 1977) is an English singer, songwriter, record producer and audio engineer.

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Improvisation

Improvisation is creating or performing something spontaneously or making something from whatever is available.

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Jack Black

Thomas Jacob "Jack" Black (born August 28, 1969) is an American actor, comedian, and musician.

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James Franco

James Edward Franco (born April 19, 1978) is an American actor, filmmaker, and college instructor.

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Joe Hutshing

Joe Hutshing is an American film editor who grew up in San Diego, California and is best known for working multiple times with film director, Oliver Stone and well as with film director Cameron Crowe (who is also from San Diego, California).

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John Krasinski

John Burke Krasinski (born October 20, 1979) is an American actor, screenwriter, producer, and director.

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Jon Prescott

Jon Prescott (born August 10, 1981) is an American actor.

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Jude Law

David Jude Heyworth Law (born 29 December 1972) is an English actor.

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Kate Winslet

Kate Elizabeth Winslet, (born 5 October 1975) is an English actress.

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Kathryn Hahn

Kathryn Hahn (born July 23, 1973) is an American actress, fashion model and comedian.

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Kill the Director

"Kill The Director" is a song by English indie rock band The Wombats.

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Leading man

A leading man is the actor who is the protagonist or plays a love interest to the leading actress in a film or play.

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Lindsay Lohan

Lindsay Dee Lohan (born July 2, 1986) is an American actress, businesswoman, fashion designer and singer.

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List of films featuring fictional films

A body of films feature fictional films as part of their narrative.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Lorne Balfe

Lorne Balfe (born 23 February 1976) is a Scottish music producer and composer for film, television, and video games.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881.

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Love Actually

Love Actually is a 2003 Christmas-themed romantic comedy film written and directed by Richard Curtis.

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Meet cute

In film and television, a meet cute is a scene in which a future romantic couple meets for the first time.

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Metacritic

Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of media products: music albums, video games, films, TV shows, and formerly, books.

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Nancy Meyers

Nancy Jane Meyers (born December 8, 1949) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter.

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New York Observer

Observer is an online newspaper originating in New York City.

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NRJ

NRJ (NRJ is an acronym read as énergie in French, pronounced) is a private French radio station created by Jean-Paul Baudecroux and Max Guazzini in June 1981 and belongs to the NRJ Group.

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Owen Gleiberman

Owen Gleiberman (born February 24, 1959) is an American film critic, who has been the chief film critic for Variety since May 2016.

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Pasadena, California

Pasadena is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, located 10 miles (16 kilometers) northeast of Downtown Los Angeles.

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Relativity Media

Relativity Media was an American media company headquartered in Beverly Hills, California, founded in 2004 by Lynwood Spinks and Ryan Kavanaugh.

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Rex Reed

Rex Taylor Reed (born October 2, 1938) is an American film critic and former co-host of the syndicated television show At the Movies.

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Richard Neutra

Richard Joseph Neutra (April 8, 1892 – April 16, 1970) was an Austrian-American architect.

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Romance film

Romance films or romance movies are romantic love stories recorded in visual media for broadcast in theaters and on TV that focus on passion, emotion, and the affectionate romantic involvement of the main characters and the journey that their genuinely strong, true and pure romantic love takes them through dating, courtship or marriage.

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Romantic comedy

Romantic comedy (also known as the portmanteaus romedy or romcom) is a genre with light-hearted, humorous plotlines, centered on romantic ideals such as that true love is able to surmount most obstacles.

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Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.

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Rufus Sewell

Rufus Frederik Sewell (born 29 October 1967) is an English actor.

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San Francisco Chronicle

The San Francisco Chronicle is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California.

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San Marino, California

San Marino is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, incorporated on April 12, 1913 The city is located in the San Rafael Hills.

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Santa Ana winds

The Santa Ana winds are strong, extremely dry down-slope winds that originate inland and affect coastal Southern California and northern Baja California.

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School of Rock

School of Rock is a 2003 comedy film directed by Richard Linklater, produced by Scott Rudin, and written by Mike White.

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Science fiction film

Science fiction film (or sci-fi film) is a genre that uses speculative, fictional science-based depictions of phenomena that are not fully accepted by mainstream science, such as extraterrestrial lifeforms, alien worlds, extrasensory perception and time travel, along with futuristic elements such as spacecraft, robots, cyborgs, interstellar travel or other technologies.

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Screwball comedy film

Screwball comedy is a genre of comedy film that became popular during the Great Depression, originating in the early 1930s and thriving until the early 1940s.

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Shannyn Sossamon

Shannon Marie Kahololani Sossamon, commonly known as Shannyn Sossamon (born October 3, 1978), is an American actress and musician.

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Shelley Berman

Sheldon Leonard Berman (February 3, 1925 – September 1, 2017) was an American comedian, actor, writer, teacher, lecturer and poet.

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Shere

Shere is a village in the Guildford district of Surrey, England east south-east of Guildford and west of Dorking, centrally bypassed by the A25.

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Silver Lake, Los Angeles

Silver Lake is a residential and commercial neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California.

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Single parent

A single parent is a parent that parents alone without the other parent's support, meaning this particular parent is the only parent to the child, responsible for all financial, material, and emotional needs.

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Something's Gotta Give (film)

Something's Gotta Give is a 2003 American romantic comedy film written, produced and directed by Nancy Meyers.

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Sony Pictures Studios

The Sony Pictures Studios are a television and film studio complex located in Culver City, California at 10202 West Washington Boulevard and bounded by Culver Boulevard (south), Washington Boulevard (north), Overland Avenue (west) and Madison Avenue (east).

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Soundtrack

A soundtrack, also written sound track, can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film, video or television presentation; or the physical area of a film that contains the synchronized recorded sound.

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Studio system

The studio system (which was used during a period known as the Golden Age of Hollywood) is a method of film production and distribution dominated by a small number of "major" studios in Hollywood.

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Surrey

Surrey is a county in South East England, and one of the home counties.

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Tara Road (film)

Tara Road is a film based on the novel of the same name by Maeve Binchy.

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Teen Choice Award for Choice Hissy Fit

The following is a list of Teen Choice Award winners and nominees for Choice Hissy Fit.

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Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie – Romance

The following is a list of Teen Choice Award winners and nominees for Choice Movie - Romance.

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Teen Choice Awards

The Teen Choice Awards is an annual awards show that airs on the Fox television network.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Graduate

The Graduate is a 1967 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Mike Nichols and written by Buck Henry and Calder Willingham, based on the 1963 novel of the same name by Charles Webb, who wrote it shortly after graduating from Williams College.

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The Parent Trap (1998 film)

The Parent Trap is a 1998 American romantic comedy-drama film co-written and directed by Nancy Meyers, and produced and co-written by Charles Shyer.

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The Philadelphia Story (film)

The Philadelphia Story is a 1940 American romantic comedy film directed by George Cukor, starring Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, and James Stewart and featuring Ruth Hussey.

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The Wombats

The Wombats are an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 2003.

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Tiffany & Co.

Tiffany & Company (known colloquially as Tiffany or Tiffany's) is an American luxury jewelry and specialty retailer, headquartered in New York City.

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Trailer (promotion)

A trailer (also known as a preview or coming attraction) is a commercial advertisement for a feature film that will be exhibited in the future at a cinema, the result of creative and technical work.

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Universal Pictures

Universal Pictures (also known as Universal Studios) is an American film studio owned by Comcast through the Universal Filmed Entertainment Group division of its wholly owned subsidiary NBCUniversal.

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USA Today

USA Today is an internationally distributed American daily, middle-market newspaper that serves as the flagship publication of its owner, the Gannett Company.

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Varèse Sarabande

Varèse Sarabande is an American record label, owned by Concord Music Group and distributed by Universal Music Group, which specializes in film scores and original cast recordings.

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is a weekly American entertainment trade magazine and website owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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Wallace Neff

Wallace Neff (January 28, 1895 – June 8, 1982) was an architect based in Southern California and was largely responsible for developing the region's distinct architectural style referred to as "California" style.

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Waverly Films

Waverly Films is a Brooklyn based group of filmmakers who met at NYU and are named after a nearby diner.

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Westside (Los Angeles County)

The Los Angeles Westside is an urban region in western Los Angeles County, California.

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What Women Want

What Women Want is a 2000 American romantic fantasy comedy film written by Josh Goldsmith, Cathy Yuspa, and Diane Drake, directed by Nancy Meyers, and starring Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt.

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4th Irish Film & Television Awards

The 4th Irish Film & Television Awards took place in 2007 and was hosted by Ryan Tubridy at the Royal Dublin Society Main Hall, Dublin.

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9th ALMA Awards

The 9th ALMA Awards honors the accomplishments made by Hispanics in film and television in 2006.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holiday

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