Last Holiday Page #4

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
3,291 Views


which you have every legal right

to pursue.

Well, what if I pay for it myself?

How much would that cost me?

The cost

of a median cranial debulking surgery...

is around $340,000.

That's without anesthesia.

You'll want that.

Check again,

make sure I'm not covered.

You wait and you wait

for something big to happen...

and then you find out you're gonna die.

I really wanted to meet you.

And I should've ate that.

I should've ate all that stuff.

Especially this.

Put my foot in that. Darius loved that.

Now I'll never get to Karlovy Vary.

Chef Didier.

- Hello?

- Hi.

Hiya, sis!

I was just getting ready to call you.

You know, there's this guy

that I met in this club...

and he said he's gonna introduce me

to some of his friends in Nashville...

I just need you

to take care of the kids for three days.

What you gonna do in Nashville?

Girl, I am finally going to be

a country western singer.

Isn't that great?

Tanya, ain't no such thing

as a black country singer.

You know, I am not asking you to

comment on the validity of my dreams.

Now can you...

Hold on. Anton, would you stop it?

- This child is going to kill himself!

- Listen, that's why I'm calling you...

What are you doing? Why can't you

watch the kids? What are you...

- I'm gonna have to call you back.

- But, I'm...

I told you to stop jumping.

Do it again and see what happens.

You think I'm playing?

Georgia, where have you been?

Adamian's been looking for you.

Good, 'cause I'm looking for him, too.

- Why?

- I'm gonna take your advice.

Huh?

Look, remember when you said

life was too short to live the way I do?

- Oh, I say a lot of things.

- Yeah, well, you were right.

What? What did I say?

What are you gonna do?

Georgia?

What did I say?

You don't knock?

You better have a hell of an excuse

for where you've been, Ms. Byrd.

I do, I do.

You see, Mr. Adamian...

Excuse me, would you mind?

This is very important.

- Actually, it's a matter of life and...

- What?

Just turn it off.

Yeah.

You're killing me

with the potato peelers.

Move them

or I'll shove them down your throat.

You got a problem?

Yes, I do.

That's a $400 phone.

Now I feel better.

That's company property.

That's going to come out

of your paycheck.

Take it. Take the whole thing, okay?

It's worth it.

This is not about you, okay?

It's not about me.

It's about business.

- It's about the company.

- Mr. Adamian.

I want you to hear this.

This man lives his philosophy.

Rule One:

Life is not a popularity contest...

but it is a contest.

Boo-hoo, they don't like me.

Rule Two:
You grab

that scared little loser inside you...

and beat the living crap out of him!

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Jeffrey Price

Jeffrey Price (born 1949) is an American screenwriter and producers who worked on several films and television series. more…

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