The Holiday (2006)

Two separate movies spliced together, Nancy Meyers' loooong episode of Wife Swap (or Life Swap) tells the stories of two unlucky-in-love professional women who do a holiday switcheroo and finally meet the loves of their lives - Cameron Diaz's Amanda lands a handsome widower who fixes coffee machines, while Kate Winslett's Iris shows some affection towards a musician but falls head-over-heels in love with modern home interiors.

★★★★☆

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Knight and Day (2010)

Despite my doubts Tom Cruise would be able to emulate the sort of debonair, rakish Cary Grant lead required for this romantic action comedy - like a modern North by North West - he does a great job and Cameron Diaz more than adequately fills her role of ditzy heroine-in-distress who gets tied up in an international intrigue by forever being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

★★★☆☆

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Vanilla Sky (2001)

Awful, painfully long-winded "Total Recall" minus the fun and action, preoccupied instead with the psychological anguish of its hero who doesn't know minute to minute what is real, whether he killed one of his girlfriends, or if he has just been "Rekall-ed" by a sinister company called Life Extension.

★☆☆☆☆

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