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The Holiday (2006)

★ 7.1 · 5,613 ratings on TMDB

It's Christmas Eve and we are going to go celebrate being young and being alive.

The Holiday poster★ 7.1

Two women, one American and one British, swap homes at Christmastime following bad breakups. Each woman finds romance with a local man but realizes that the imminent return home may end the relationship.

DirectorNancy Meyers
CastCameron Diaz, Edward Burns, Eli Wallach, Emma Pritchard, Jack Black, Jude Law
GenresComedy, Romance
The emergence reading

The Holiday keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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