Last Holiday (DVD, 2006, Widescreen Edition)

I loved this movie. It really makes you think about living life to the fullest. A very quite, withdrawn woman is diagnosed with a disease and is told she has 3 weeks to live. She starts doing all the things she has dreamed of doing, but was afraid to do. It shows a new side to Queen Latifah's acting that has never been seen before. It is heart warming and refreshing.

Simply put, this is a cheerful movie about a woman diagnosed with a terminal illness who decides to make her "Possibilities" book (a scrapbook of her dreams) come true by doing everything she always wanted to do but never did. As she puts in her final note to her family (slightly paraphrased), "I want to be cremated because I spent my whole life in a box and don't want to be buried that way too." This movie is PERFECT for someone who is always worried about trivial things or someone too cautious to live their dreams or afraid of what people will think. It's also nice to see a MOVIE STAR who is a "real" size in which HER WEIGHT IS NEVER MENTIONED and is never an issue. Bravo!

My sister and I were both having a really bad work week, stressful and anxiety-producing. So we went together to see this when it was in the theaters. We were so delighted by every minute of the movie. I immediately bought three copies when it came out on DVD. One for me (natch), one for my aunt, and another copy for a female cousin's birthday. I highly recommend the film for a Girls-Night-In party with cocktails, snacks and hors d'oeuvres.

Queen Latifah plays a retail clerk (Georgia) who is incorrectly told she has only a few months to live. As she's been carefully clipping coupons and saving her money for years, she has quite a savings account built up. She decides to use up her entire savings to live life to the fullest while she still can.

She leafs through her dream scrapbook she's created with clippings of places she'd like to vacation, and settles on a lavish European hotel, "Grandhotel Pupp." Meanwhile as she looks through her scrapbook, you discover her crush on Sean, played by LL Cool J.

It's thoroughly enjoyable to watch the character's "fish out of water" moments as she arrives in the grand hotel. She's quiet, restrained, classy and appreciative, unlike many of the pampered rich guests staying there at the same time. She notices the beautiful gold-leafed ceiling, surprising the hotel clerk who works under it who never thinks to look at it.

Alicia Witt, the pretty red-head girl from "Mr. Holland's Opus" plays a snooty, spoiled girl having an affair with her boss. Watching her blossom and transform her way of treating people under Georgia's example, is heartwarming.

Georgia proceeds to pamper herself with a shopping trip for gorgeous gowns (Not quite as delicious as the shopping scene from Pretty Woman, but still fun to watch) and treatments at the spa. Along the way you watch her interact kindly and politely with the hotel's staff. I loved watching her order "one of everything" that Chef Didier (played by Gerard Depardieu) cooked that evening, so she could taste a little bit of everything.

I won't spoil the ending, but you can imagine there are some interesting things ahead when it turns out Georgia was diagnosed incorrectly and is not going to die any time soon.

It's a fun morality play that isn't in your face, encouraging us all to live life to the fullest, enjoy our surroundings, and treat people well. Plus it's fun to see the costumes, gorgeous hotel, and European scenery.

The Queen is just that (The Queen) as far as I am concerned... She is just so down to earth that I can relate to her in anything she does... She has an honesty about her in her acting that she literally becomes the character... She is fun and refreshing and I make sure to see all her movies... Oh and she can sing too!

Queen Latifa really is funny in this film . She puts the snobby rich people in their place and tells it like it is . It is one of the best movies she has done . I love the ending , she gets just what she wants .

I have to say that at a time when I was totally disabled from this world from a horrible accident at work, I was so drugged up for all my pain. The only thing I do remember is seeing Last Holiday and crazy as it sounds, I watched it nonstop everyday for weeks because this show brought me so many smiles and good feelings inside. I loved all the acting in it and seeing these well known faces made me just feel good. It is just a good, wholesome show and I think at a time when I was looking at death's door, this was my savior. I will always have great feelings inside when I see this movie. I had to buy it so I can continue to enjoy this wonderful show that brought me good feelings when I had so little hope.

I viewed this movie this weekend and loved it. It's a movie you can watch with family and friends or as I did while preparing my Sunday dinner. I am purchasing it for my tape library. I usually watch movies I love, over and over again; and this certainly qualifies to be in that category. Queen Latifah was so elegant, eloquent and graceful; and I enjoyed LL Cool J as the handsome, sensitive and caring future man of Possibility.

This movie has it all...comedy, drama, romance and FOOD! Queen Latifah shines in this movie about a woman who gets a wake-up call as to what's really important in life...to live it! Great family entertainment!

I saw this movie after returning home from a week long vacation with my sisters. It was the last thing we did before we went back to work. Last Holiday made me want to book another ticket and hit the airways within 24 days. Without being too cheesy, it reminds you to live your best life now!

There is something soft and sweet about this funny little movie.

Queen Latifah's character is diagnosed with three (3) weeks to live, so she starts LIVING all her dreams without delay. There is no retirement to save for & no reason to be conservative any more. Oh, and she has a crush on LL Cool J's character (always a plus in my book).

My personal message from Last Holiday...TRAVEL MORE! Don't allow high school or college to be the best years of your life AND don't wait until you are seventy (70+) to see the World, get started now. --MsJTRAVEL 20OCT06

This movie is fun and light hearted comedy even though it is about a woman dying.Queen Latifauh has star quaulity. She is showing her skill as an actress in this movie. All of us can relate to the idea of putting off things that we really want to do. Being told that you will die soon is very liberating. She is able to throw caution to the wind. I was surprised that this movie was a remade of an old screw ball comedy. The special extras are entertaining also.

This is great movie. I could watch over and over. It goods to have movies without sex and volience all the time. Highly recommended for the whole family. Thumps up!

I had wanted to see this in the theater, but never made it. I love Queen Latifah. When I was able to get it on e-bay for a great price, I decided to buy it (I'm not much for renting movies.) Great story with of course, the lesson to live life to the fullest and that dreams can come true.

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The movie made me think of the things I might do in a situation like that. There are a lot of things that I dream about doing and a lot of places that I would like to visit but, we were told from a young age that we should save our money for a rainy day. If I were given a medical result like the Queen was , I would do everything and go every where my money would take me. I bought the movie because I like both Queen Latifah and LL Cool J as recording artist and actors and wanted to see them together plus, the preview was very good it made you want to see the movie.

This is one of my favorite movies. I have it on VHS and wanted it on DVD, so that's why I purchased it. I recommend it to anyone.

LAST HOLIDAY is a fun feel good movie. Queen Latifah is great as always. She plays a hard working woman, who is told she hasn't long to live, and decides to spend her last days living as she's dreamed of doing. Spending her savings, she goes on a holiday to live it up and take chances she wouldn't normally take, since she has nothing to lose.

I love this movie--every time it comes on I have to watch it. Good acting-realistic happy, sad, exciting.No foul language-a movie everyone can relate to.

I love the whole plotline of this movie, about how to get jumping, get moving, get DOING with things in your life. I love Queen Latifah as an actress, period, and was certainly not disappointed here. Check it out!

Queen Latifa's character in this movie is a coupon clipping, lean cuisine eating woman who is too shy to ask out the guy that she loves. She has a book of Possibilities that she places pictures of all the food she cooks and pictures of a possible wedding with the guy she crushes on.
Then she has a CAT scan and is diagnosed with a disease that only gives her two weeks to live. She finally realizes that you live NOW and to make the best of it.

~*Wonderful Movie*~ A+

This is just a feel good movie. It has possibilites!! Just lets you know that sometimes things do work out. I know it is just a movie but it kinda gets your hopes up that things work out.

This is an updated version to the "live life as if you're dying in a month" movie. Everyone in that position tends to say what they mean and mean what they say, no pretense or mask. In the movies, they are probabley far more kinder than I would be in reality, if I were in that position.
However, the twist here is that Georgia (Latifah) wins over people without trying, only because they think she is "somebody important" (because she's blowing her money thinking there isn't going to be a tomorrow); but when they learn the truth about who she actually is, that her being "somebody important" doesn't matter anymore. The "little people," even though they also think she's "somebody important," seem to see the real Georgia first.
The biggest lesson, however, is learned by Georgia herself. She learns that her possiblilities [dreams] can become reality; but, only if she wins the battle over fear and goes after her dreams and possiblities.

Queen Latifah is absolutely delightful in Wayne Wang's romantic comedy, LAST HOLIDAY. Latifah stars as Georgia Byrd, a reserved plus-sized woman who lives a dreary, ordinary life in pre-Katrina New Orleans, where she dreams of an elegant existence filled with fancy food, stylish clothing, and high-society parties. But she spends most of her evenings eating frozen dinners all alone, often thinking about a shy coworker (LL Cool J) she has a crush on. When she is suddenly diagnosed with a terminal illness and given three weeks to live, she collects her savings and decides to go crazy, doing all those things she would never allow herself to do before. She heads for one of the world's ritziest hotels, the Grand Hotel Pupp in Karlovy Vary in the Czech Republic, where she takes advantage of every luxury she can, from spa treatments to downhill ski runs to helicopter trips to designer shopping excursions. While her lavish appetite is admired by a gourmet chef (Gerard Depardieu, showing agile comic skill), she is deemed a potential threat by a corporate bigwig (a slick Timothy Hutton). She's also none too happy to find her too-smooth senator (Giancarlo Esposito) enjoying a lush vacation instead of serving his community. Latifah simply lights up the screen in a somewhat different version of the role played by Alec Guinness in Henry Cass's 1950 original. This version of LAST HOLIDAY has been updated with a playful pop soundtrack, Geoffrey Simpson's beautiful photography, William Arnold's bright and colorful production design, and an enjoyable, lighthearted pace from director Wang (DIM SUM, THE JOY LUCK CLUB, and MAID IN MANHATTAN).

Last Holiday is a cute family movie that you can enjoy with everyone. It has a good group of actors who deliver! I recommend this movie to all of my girls, and to the guys who don't mind the occasional chick flick.