Romancefest 2014: Holiday

This George Cukor screwball comedy starring Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn is one of those movies I can’t believe I hadn’t seen yet.

The always likable and charming Grant stars as a self-made man from a modest background who becomes engaged to marry a woman (Doris Nolan) who turns out to be from a rich family. Grant doesn’t mind, of course, but he plans to scrape together enough money to retire early and really think about what he wants to do with his life. His future wife, on the other hand, plans for him to go straight to work making big bucks to add to the family fortune.

Hepburn stars as the self-described black sheep of the family who is instantly charmed by Grant and sympathetic towards his goals in life.

HOLIDAY features a lot of what you might expect from a movie of this kind, and that’s another way of saying it’s great – it has all the fast-talking interplay you’d expect from this genre, delivered by a perfect cast.