Last Holiday Page #5

Synopsis: 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 Europe's Grandhotel Pupp, 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?
Genre: Comedy
Director(s): Wayne Wang
Production: Paramount Pictures
  7 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.4
Metacritic:
52
Rotten Tomatoes:
55%
PG-13
Year:
2006
112 min
$38,360,195
Website
3,514 Views


- Lean forward.

Left leg, that's it. And go!

Go, that's it. Just go! Yeah!

You got it, lean forward! Balance!

Yeah! That's it. Lean...

Are you all right?

Let's go.

- Let's turn.

- Oh, man.

- You feel the rhythm?

- I feel the rhythm.

- Yeah. Feel the rhythm.

- That's good.

- That's it. Right. You got it?

- I think I got it.

So, go! Just lean forward.

Lean forward and go!

Lean forward. Lean forward.

Lean forward.

- Lean forward.

- Yeah, that's it, that's great.

- Oh, Lord.

- That's great. No, no, no.

Slow down. Slow down a bit.

No. Slow down!

Turn the board sideways!

Slow, slow down!

Stop!

Scusi! Watch out!

Get out of my way! Watch it!

What?

It's steep here, Matthew.

Hey, Matthew, this is

a Black Diamond run.

Yeah, you're looking good.

- Look at her go!

- Matthew?

- Look at her go!

- Matthew?

Matthew!

- Enjoying yourself?

- Not really.

Please, don't do that.

I guess you don't believe in turning?

I believe in it,

I just don't know how to do...

Oh, hold me, hold me! Please!

- Please get off of my skis!

- Okay, I think I've got it.

Let me go.

Sorry. I'm okay! I'm okay!

Damn you!

Nobody makes me do a face-plant!

Damn it!

Watch your mouth!

What the hell are you doing?

You trying to kill me?

Watch out!

Get over here, you!

They should get you off this mountain!

You figure...

You... You ski like that...

you're gonna be in court

for the next two years!

That's fine with me, baby.

Oh, my God.

And we are going to leave you now...

- to relax and meditate.

- Thank you.

Why, Lord?

I don't want to die.

I want to live.

What are you trying to do to me, huh?

You have big knot in neck.

You do something at work where

you hold head in strange position.

Excuse me? Are you suggesting that l...

Too much holding phone

on neck, maybe.

You know what?

Why don't you just shut up...

and do what you're supposed to do,

okay?

You're a masseuse, not a life coach!

Excuse me.

Hey. Hey!

I don't like the way

you're talking to that woman.

I'm sorry if I disturbed you, Ms. Byrd.

She was hurting me, though.

I don't care. You don't talk

to working people that way.

Now, it's plain to see

what the problem is here.

You got tension in your neck 'cause

you keep going down on Mr. Kragen.

And he's a married man.

At least this poor lady

is trying to work it out of you.

Don't take it out on Brigitta.

Thank you.

Anyway, enjoy your massage.

- Thank you very much.

- Bye.

Is it that obvious

that I'm sleeping with him?

I knew it.

None of the other women

at the company will even talk to me.

I'm marked by this.

And there's no one in my life

who I can talk to about it.

Well, I wouldn't lose too much sleep

over what other people think.

Now, come on, girl,

we're supposed to be meditating.

I've been at the company six years.

I've worked really hard, you know?

Oh, you don't understand.

I hate the retail business.

Oh, believe me, baby, I understand.

I worked in the retail business

for 10 years myself.

Look, I know this whole story.

My sister was seeing a married man.

Matthew's gonna leave his wife.

It's a bad time for her right now,

but he is gonna leave his wife.

Baby, come on, now.

I know you're holding out some hope...

but come on, they're never bad people,

they're greedy people.

They want a little bit of this,

little bit of that, little bit of that...

They ain't leaving their wives.

Yeah, you just need to leave him.

It's not that easy.

If I leave him, I'll have to quit my job.

What am I going to do?

I didn't finish school.

Well, then you go back to school.

There now, we solved it.

Let's tackle something heavy,

like world hunger.

Well, did you at least find out

what she's doing here?

She's just here enjoying herself.

Unlike us.

How can I enjoy myself?

Dillings is suddenly telling me

that his committee...

has problems with my acquisitions.

Matthew, what does that

have to do with Georgia?

Oh, Georgia, is it now?

Oh, well, why don't you tell me?

I don't know, Matthew.

She said she worked in retail.

Did I mention to you how she told me...

you were gonna have

a shitty fourth quarter?

How can she possibly know

about our fourth quarter?

I barely know about our fourth quarter.

Well, maybe she's an executive

for Wal-Mart.

I mean, the competition

wouldn't want to see you...

triple the size of your retail empire,

would they?

You know what? That's it. That's it!

She's here to drive a wedge

between me and those guys.

If I don't have their support,

my bill is dead on the floor.

That's what's gonna happen, see?

I need to relax, that's what I need to do.

Oh, God, my blood pressure is...

You know what?

I need to just do something to relax.

- Come here...

- Take a cold plunge, Matthew.

What?

Georgia?

- You guys seen Georgia?

- I ain't seen her in a while.

No.

Hey, what are you doing,

casing the place?

- Where's Georgia?

- Hey, you're that guy.

You're the Possibilities man.

The guy in the book.

What? What book?

What are you talking about?

- Where's Georgia?

- Hold on.

- What?

- Hold on.

Here, I found this in her garbage can.

That's my employee of the month photo.

- Did she say anything about me?

- No.

Why? You like her, right?

Easy, killer.

Did she say where she was going?

A place with healing waters

or something.

Look, it's really important that you

remember, all right, little man?

Maybe it's in here somewhere.

I know she told me before she left.

I think this is it.

Calamari Vary, I think the name is.

- Karlovy Vary?

- Yeah, Karlovy Vary, that's it!

- Oh, good evening, Georgia.

- Hi.

- How are you this evening?

- Good, thanks.

Why don't you join us?

We got plenty of room at our table,

don't we, Matthew?

- Sure, yeah, why not?

- No, please. Please, come join us.

- Yes, come, it's decided.

- Good evening, Ms. Byrd.

Chef Didier has reserved a special table

for you. If you'd like to come with me.

Well, thank you,

but why don't you join me?

It seems I have a special table.

- Thanks so much for having us.

- Oh, thank you. Thank you.

You really look beautiful.

- Yes, you do.

- Thank you.

- You really do.

- Thank you.

Pull up a chair, Matthew.

Glad you decided to join us, Matthew.

Could you maybe just... A little room.

It...

Hi. Thank you so much, Chef Didier.

No, you are my preferred guest...

and I have prepared a special menu

just for you tonight.

But I will make no substitutions.

Don't worry.

We will have your special menu

exactly the way you make it.

No substitutions?

No substitutions.

That was delicious.

- Oh, my goodness, I hurt myself.

- Thank you.

So, Georgia,

Ms. Burns tells me you're in retail.

I was.

Well, you've obviously done very well

for yourself.

Actually, I just clipped a lot of coupons.

And when you say coupons,

you obviously mean bonds?

No. No, I sold all my bonds.

You sold all of your bonds?

Ms. Byrd, as Chairman

of the Commerce Committee...

I'm always interested in how

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Jeffrey Price

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