
In morte veritas. Georgia Byrd clerks at a New Orleans department store. She defers pleasure: cooks gourmet meals, eats Lean Cuisine; likes a co-worker in silence; has savings, but hasn't left Louisiana. All that changes when a CT Scan discloses she has three weeks to live. She cashes her savings and heads to Grandhotel Pupp in the Czech Republic, where Chef Didier presides. She checks into the Presidential Suite, orders everything on the menu, snowboards, and comes to the at... (Full plot summary below)
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In morte veritas. Georgia Byrd clerks at a New Orleans department store. She defers pleasure: cooks gourmet meals, eats Lean Cuisine; likes a co-worker in silence; has savings, but hasn't left Louisiana. All that changes when a CT Scan discloses she has three weeks to live. She cashes her savings and heads to Grandhotel Pupp in the Czech Republic, where Chef Didier presides. She checks into the Presidential Suite, orders everything on the menu, snowboards, and comes to the attention of the chef and the hotel's powerful American guests: a Congressman, a Senator, a retail magnate, and his mistress. She has nothing to lose, so she tells them what she thinks. Will the truth set them free?
Leave your thoughts about Last Holiday.
| Film BlatherEugene NovikovTraps a nice character and a lovely performance in a morass of stupid contrivances and useless complications. |
| Rochester Democrat and ChronicleJack GarnerA sweetly comic film that gives Queen Latifah her most satisfying role to date. |
| Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)Linda CookNote to Queen Latifah: I have almost forgiven you for the inexcusable "Taxi" now. |
| New York Daily NewsJami BernardIt's too bad there's so little of LL Cool J as the secret object of Georgia's fantasies. He'd make a funny, nimble, sexy romantic lead with just a bit more screen time. |
| Chicago TribuneJessica ReavesWe may know exactly where we're going, but the journey is so much fun, all but the most peevish audience members will find it impossible to complain. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertA movie that takes advantage of the great good nature and warmth of Queen Latifah, and uses it to transform a creaky old formula into a comedy that is just plain lovable. |
| L.A. WeeklyScott FoundasQueen Latifah gives a spectacular performance in this hugely enjoyable wish-fulfillment fantasy. |
| NewsdayGene SeymourIf Last Holiday were a song, it'd be one of Earth, Wind and Fire's brassier anthems of uplift and self-realization. |
| St. Paul Pioneer PressChris HewittThis isn't the sort of movie that's meant to surprise, but it is a movie that gets better as it goes. |
| Baltimore SunChris KaltenbachLatifah's performance and the film's gentle heart should prove enough to win over even the most churlish. |