Rating: PG13
Genre:
Comedy Drama
Theatrical Release: 01/13/2006(USA)
Release Date: 05/02/2006
Flags: Adult Situations, Adult Language, Adult Humor
Distributor/Studio: Paramount
A woman learns to love life when she finds out she won't be around long in this
comedy.
Georgia Byrd (
Queen Latifah) lives in New Orleans, where she works in the cookware department of an upscale gourmet supply shop. While
Georgia carries a torch for
Sean (
LL Cool J), one of her co-workers, she doesn't have the nerve to tell him, and despite her estimable skills in the kitchen, she lives frugally and doesn't put her talent to use.
Georgia's good friend
Rochelle (
Jane Adams) often tells her that life is short and she needs to live a little, but she doesn't pay her much mind until a visit to the doctor reveals that
Georgia has a very rare medical condition, and only has three weeks to live. Throwing caution to the wind,
Georgia cashes out her life savings and heads to Europe for a last bit of revelry. She checks into a four-star hotel, trades her drab clothes for
haute couture, finds herself flirting with a handsome and powerful politician (
Giancarlo Esposito), convinces the head of a cooking supplies firm (
Timothy Hutton) that she's a high-powered executive from a rival company, and makes friends with a four-star chef (
Gérard Depardieu). But when
Sean learns the truth about
Georgia's condition, he sets out to find her before their chance at romance has passed. Directed by
Wayne Wang,
Last Holiday is a remake of a 1950 British
comedy, which starred
Alec Guinness as a salesman with a few weeks to live.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
