Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6649 in DVD
• Released on: 2006-03-06
• Rating: Universal, suitable for all
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Black & White, Dubbed, Full Screen, PAL
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: Arabic, Dutch, English, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish
• Dubbed in: German, Italian, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 91 minutes

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 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.

Customer Reviews

Cary Grants best
This film is far from perfect but it is the best Grant, Hepburn colaboration of there careeers. It beats sylvia Saint, Philadelphia story and even in my opinion, Bringing up baby. It doesn't have the same production values nor even the plot as those films but it simply works as the perfect romantic comedy. It's also the only film i can think of where Grant displays his expertise as an acrobat and it's the only film where i actually sympathised with Katherine Hepburns character (i usually find her quite irritating)

The story is very simple. Boy meets girl. Boy meets family of girl. Girls sister falls for Grant. Girl turns out to be wrong for him. Sister turns out to be right for him. Simplistic but believable and rewarding.

It's warm, genuine and entertaining....prabably my favourite Grant film

1930s commedy at its best
This is one of the best teamings of grant and hepburn. I won't tell you what is going to happen but the build up to the inevitable is brillaintly acted and paced. It's a gentler and more well observed than the screwball antics of 'bringing up baby' and much more in the style of 'the philadelphia story'. I'm not saying it's predictable in any way. It's one of those situations where you want the ending you get and can't wait for it to happen.
I love the pairing of grant and hepburn as much as grant and irene dunne, check out 'the awful truth' and 'my favourite wife' if you want to see a woman get the better of grant! Grant and hepburn as a team are superlative and I prefer them to hepburn and spencer tracy.
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I love this film and it it is definitely in my top ten. I cannot recommend it enough.

This film is for life not just for Christmas!
Although this is set at Christmas, don't think it's the usual touchy-feely festive nonsense; it isn't.

This is refreshingly feisty with Hepburn in particular on fine form and getting her teeth into a character that you don't usually find in films like this. Interestingly, this film was made during the period when Hepburn was deemed to be "box office poison". It's funny how her character is appealing to our 21st century eyes as it's not run of the mill and she plays it with a lot of charm and gusto.

Grant is good here, although clearly hasn't settled into his peerless screen persona that served him so well in later films (North by Northwest, Charade, Walk Don't Run).

Supporting characters are also a cut above the average.

If you're looking for something that's not sentimental drivel a fiver spent on Holiday is a fiver well spent.