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Film: Holiday

Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn Whoa. A really terrific film. Here's a pitch to oversell it: Rules of the Game meets His Girl Friday. I go a bit too far, but it can stand in that company. A shockingly relevant and honest film that services the POVs of the antagonists just as well as our heroes. Essentially, the story boils down to a conflict of values when Cary Grant unwittingly gets engaged to the daughter of a very wealthy American banker family and yearns to live a life of adventure and freedom, but finds himself slowly being compromised into the way of the upper crust. Katharine Hepburn plays the disillusioned sister of his fiance who sees him as a breath of fresh air and someone who will rescue her sister. You may be able to imagine where it goes, but it's nevertheless fun to see how. 

What this film explores are essentially the values which will 25 years later become the counter-culture versus the values of the old WASP establishment. The irony, methinks, is the Hepburn-Grant, "live your life of bliss" has now won out over those old, stuffy values of making money, working hard, doing your duty, etc...and yet...I think our those old critics would look at our contemporary society and be like: told ya'll you shoulda kept it in your pants.