The Holiday

The Holiday (2006)

5 factual errors - chronological order

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Factual error: When Iris is unable to sleep she looks over at Amanda's bedside clock which displays 5:00 pm, however, moments later Iris discovers a button to lower the shade. There is bright sunlight coming into the room, however, in December the sun sets prior to this time (about 4:45pm according to timeanddate.com)

Factual error: When Amanda arrives in England, on the way to the cottage and at the cottage, there is snow everywhere: road, yard, field, trees. he next morning, she says it is "freezing cold" but the snow is gone and all the field is green as if it would be spring over the night.

Bogdanicus

Factual error: In the scene where Iris has landed in California and traveling to the home, she is headed the wrong way on the Pacific Coast Highway. She was headed SOUTH on PCH where there is no airport north of her to bring her to California on an international flight.had to be coming into LAX.

Factual error: The outside view of Kate Winslet's 'cottage' is not a cottage at all - in England it would be considered a large detached house and it has several rooms on the upper floor. However, the inside depicts an actual cottage: there is only one bedroom (Jude Law has to sleep on the sofa), the bathroom is too small for a regular sized bath, and the downstairs only has a couple of rooms. So the outside view of the house is large, while the interior is depicted as tiny.

Factual error: The cab from the airport taking Iris to Amanda's house is going through Malibu and heading southbound. Malibu is north of the airport so the cab is driving the wrong direction.

Revealing mistake: When the driver is taking Amanda to the airport at the end, all the dials on the car are at zero, so obviously the car is not moving at all.

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Trivia: When Jack Black is singing the tune from "The Graduate" in the video store, the guy who tuts and gets annoyed is Dustin Hoffman, who starred in the Graduate. Apparently his cameo was unplanned, he noticed the cameras and stopped by, and it was decided he should make his small appearance.

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Question: I'm assuming that when Graham received the phone calls from Sophie & Olivia, who Amanda thought were other girlfriends, they were actually from his daughters. I have a couple of questions about this. Firstly, for the girl's names to flash up on his phone they must have their own phones but surely the youngest one at least is far too young to own a phone and ring her father? Secondly, wouldn't Graham when receiving a phone call from his daughter answer it instead of saying, "I'll ring her back"? I know at this point Amanda doesn't know he has kids & he might be trying to hide it from her, but later he does answer a phone from the other kid in front of Amanda before she finds out about the girls.

Answer: 1. As far as the daughter being too young to ring her father, there are actually some companies that make phones especially for children. They only dial the parent and the police and are very easy to use. 2. It's entirely possible that he didn't need to speak with Sophie right away, whereas the call from Olivia comes later and he may have been expecting it.

Stefanie

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