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One of the best things about the movies is that when you go to them you have a plethora of choices. They all boil down to one basic decision though…which emotions do you want to be engulfed with, thanks to your choice, two hours later.

As women tend to be, a sex that would ratherswim in the gooey goodness of satisfied “awww’s” and happy “hmmm’s” than the jolting “eeek’s” and that terrifying “for the love of all that’s holy!” it is no real surprise that the movies we tend to gravitate to, are those that are ripe with enjoyable and heart warming qualities; our “chick flicks.”

Throughout timethere are lots of that should be noted as the cream of this crop. Sleepless in Seattle, The Notebook, French Kiss, Bridget Jones’ Diary, Dirty Dancing, Top Gun (yes, it can be chicky even with jet propulsion), An Affair to Remember, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Terms of Endearment, Love Actually, Notting Hill, An Officer and a Gentleman, too many to mention in one afternoon. But recently Hollywood drummed up another hum-dinger. The Holiday.

Featuring Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet, Jack Black and Jude Law as the main cast, this feature that splits its time between L.A. and Surry, U.K. is deserving of placement among the fore-mentioned. It certainly has all the great qualities that a chick flick should have:

1)It whisks you off to someplace you’d love to be or see (L.A. and England)

2)The characters are extremely endearing. You are rooting for each and Every oneof them.

3)It makes you laugh at all the right moments.

3)One of the leads has an accent (British is a plus -this, of course, is for American audiences) and in The Holiday there are two!

4)The main character(s) must be a bit of an underdog (again, back to rooting your fav on, and again you’re initially rooting for two and by the end five!).

5)Something extra marvelous about The Holiday, in this movie’s case, you’re following two lives, on separate continents, towards the middle-end they do beginto come together, but it’s like having two chick flicks for the price of one!

6)Fabulous and handsome Leading Men and just as fabulous and beautiful Leading Ladies. Kate Winslet and Jude Law as the serious superstars with an additional bonus of up and coming Cameron Diaz -yes a superstar but relatively new to the serious-romantic-comedy. Translation, no “hair gel,” speaking mice, or spontaneous eruptions of choreographed songs in this flick.

And of course Jack Black. I’d like to go on record to state that within the next 10 years this man will have an Oscar nomination, if not an actual golden boy on his mantle at home. Much like Tom Hanks or Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jack seems to be headed straight out of his original goofy college-aged acts to the more mature, yet still extremely entertainingcinema. He is, of course, still Jack Black in this film. Just as you can still see a glimmer of Billy Madison in Adam Sandler’s Spanglish, so too, does the sing-song fabulousness still exude from darling Jack. He’s brilliant, I’ll leave it at that.

7)A wonderful ending. Where somehow it all works out, all the right words are said, all the special moments click, the lingering looks with the rising string section. Enough to give your arms goose bumps, your back that tingle, that flutter in your chest and an extremely satisfied smile on your face.

Which after all, is what you were going for from the very moment that you decided…chick flick.

Rent it, buy it, legally download it. Watch The Holiday, a possible chick flick classic in the making and enjoy the afterglow.