Georgia Byrd (Queen Latifah) works in Kragen's Department Store in New Orleans where she demonstrates and sells cookware. She longs to open her own restaurant but she is very practical and down-to-earth and doesn't seriously consider that as an option. She has a crush on another employee at the store, Sean Williams (LL Cool J), who seems to return the feeling. However, both are too shy to pursue a relationship.
One day Georgia has an accident and bumps her head hard on a cabinet. Sean takes her down to the doctor's office inside the store where she is given a CAT scan by a company doctor. The tests show that she has a rare disorder called Lampington's Disease and she has only a few weeks to live without an operation. The company insurance doesn't cover the operation and she cannot afford to pay for it herself. At first depressed with the thought of dying, she rapidly decides to live her life to the fullest while she still can.
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She cleans out her bank account and flies to the Grandhotel Pupp in the Czech Republic. This luxurious hotel is where her favorite chef works, Chef Didier (Grard Depardieu). She takes the very expensive Presidential Suite and is believed by the staff to be very wealthy. She shops for some nice clothes and enjoys the hotel's spa services. When she goes to the restaurant she decides to order everything on the menu, drawing the attention of Chef Didier. He comes out to meet her and they discuss the joys of food.
Also staying at the hotel is Matthew Kragen, the owner of the chain of department store that she used to work for. With him is his mistress/assistant,a congressman, and a senator from her home state of Louisiana. She meets all of them and Kragen becomes suspicious of her, thinking that she is some kind of corporate spy. He hires a woman on the staff, Miss Gunter to look for any clues in her room. Miss Gunter finds and reads a letter that Georgia had written with instructions to follow after her death. She changes her mind about Georgia and returns Kragen's money, but not until after she has revealed that Georgia used to work for his store and is not some jet-setting socialite. Miss Gunter lets the news of Georgia's impending death slip to other employees and they are sad as they've came to like and respect Georgia's attitude toward life.
She tries to go back home but finds that the road leading from the hotel to the airport is blocked by an avalanche. On the other side of the avalanche is Sean, who had learned from Dr. Gupta about Georgia's illness and had decided to come to Europe to be with her for her final days. She returns to the hotel and Sean leaves his taxi and starts off on foot around the avalanche.
That night at the New Year's Eve party the kitchen is short staffed and Georgia helps Chef Didier with cooking the meal for the evening. He is very emotional, letting her that he knows of her disease and how much he has enjoyed knowing her. When she returns to her table Kragen tells everyone that she is an ex-employee of his, expecting to humiliate her. She admits that she let them believe what they wanted to believe and then told them about her fatal disease. Everybody is disgusted with Kragen and desert him in favor of Georgia.
Kragen continues drinking by himself, becomes depressed, and climbs out onto a high ledge and thinks about committing suicide. Georgia joins him and convinces him that he can still be happy, just not living his life the way he has in the past. While they are on the ledge they hear a voice calling to her. Sean had finally made it to the hotel. Miss Gunter finds a fax that had fallen behind the fax machine. It was from Dr. Gupta and it said that the CAT scan machine was faulty, that she did not have Lampington's Disease, and she would live.
Georgia and Sean go back to New Orleans and the next time we see them it is opening night for Georgia's restaurant. Chef Didier shows up and makes his way to the kitchen. Another famous chef and one of Georgia's long-time favorites to show up is Emeril Lagasse, making a cameo appearance as himself.
My Recommendation
Personally, my wife and I love this movie and plan to watch it during the holiday season every year. It is funny, heart warming, and it makes us feel good. The film critic Roger Ebert said "Last Holiday plays like a hug." I agree. Queen Latifah was perfectly cast and did a wonderful job with her role.
Grard Depardieu was funny and believable as the over-the-top chef who knows the secret to life, "butter!" and LL Cool J had another great supporting role as the boyfriend.
The scenery at the hotel was beautiful and made me want to learn how to use a snow board. Not as fast as Georgia did in the film, but maybe a couple of turns down the bunny slope would be okay.
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