Product Description

Director Wayne Wang guides Queen Latifah through this comedy about a woman who is misdiagnosed and given weeks, maybe days to live. She throws caution to the wind and takes off on a dream vacation to a grand European resort, transforming herself and others she meets along the way.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7529 in DVD
• Brand: PARAMOUNT HOME VIDEO
• Released on: 2006-05-02
• Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English, French
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish
• Dimensions: .25 pounds
• Running time: 112 minutes

Amazon.com
Queen Latifah demonstrates her loose, easy charm in Last Holiday, a remake of the 1950 comedy with Alec Guinness. Though at first glance it's hard to imagine anyone less like Alec Guinness than Queen Latifah, they both communicate a world of inner thought with nothing more than a sly sideways glance. Georgia Byrd (Latifah), a department store employee, leads a life of frustrated desires--particularly for a bashful salesman from the outdoor furnishings department (LL Cool J, Deep Blue Sea). But when she learns she only has a few weeks left to live, Georgia gathers her money, quits her job, and flies to a swank European resort she's always dreamed of visiting. Naturally, her new carelessness with money and fearless candor lead everyone around her--including her senator (Giancarlo Esposito, Do The Right Thing) and her former boss (Timothy Hutton, Ordinary People)--to think she's a mover and shaker. Last Holiday unfolds the way you expect it to (dozens of movies and TV shows have similar plots), but Latifah and the capable cast keep it alive. Also featuring Alicia Witt (The Upside of Anger), Jane Adams (Happiness), and the ever-dependable Gerard Depardieu (Cyrano de Bergerac) as a passionate chef. --Bret Fetzer