Last Holiday

What Queen Latifah has going for her is an outsized, likable personality.
Beware of any movie that wants her to pretend to be something else.

For example, beware of "Last Holiday." Here she plays a quiet, timid
Louisiana woman who lives a solitary life of little importance. When this woman,
Georgia Byrd, learns she has three weeks to live, she moves to a luxury hotel in
Europe to spend her final days doing all the fun things she only dreamed about
before. There she touches the hearts of the hotel staff and wins over all who
encounter her with her down-home wisdom and aw-shucks humility.

Ugh. Ugh, I say. Latifah simply is not believable as a shy, mousy creature.
It's too fundamentally opposite of who she is. It's like asking Yao Ming to play
a dwarf. And the hotel staff falling in love with her? I can buy that if it's
Queen Latifah they adore, but not Georgia Byrd. Georg...
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