Last Holiday (2006 film)

Last Holiday is a 2006 American comedydrama film starring Queen Latifah and directed by Wayne Wang. Latifah plays a humble store assistant, Georgia, who is told that she has a rare brain condition, and only a few weeks to live. She decides to spend her last funds on a luxury holiday in Europe before she dies.

Georgia Byrd Queen Latifah, an employee in the cookware department at Kragens Department Store in New Orleans, is a shy, unassuming woman who longs to cook professionally, and who records her dreams of a better life in a journal labeled Possibilities. It is the Christmas holiday season. While flirting with a coworker Sean Williams LL Cool J, she bumps her head on a cabinet door and is taken to the stores health center for a CAT scan. There she is told by company physician Dr. Gupta Ranjit Chowdhry she has several brain tumors resulting from a rare neurological disorder called Lampingtons Disease. Since her HMO plan will not cover the exorbitant cost of an operation, Georgia resigns herself to the fact she has only a few weeks to live, quits her job, liquidates her assets, and sets off on a dream vacation at the deluxe Grandhotel Pupp in the spa city of Karlovy Vary in the Czech Republic.Free of inhibitions and determined to live life to the fullest, Georgia checks into the Presidential Suite, buys a designer wardrobe in expensive boutiques, makes extensive use of the hotels spa facilities, attempts snowboarding and BASE jumping off of a dam, enjoys succulent meals prepared by worldrenowned Chef Didier Grard Depardieu, and wins a small fortune playing roulette in the casino. She impresses the hotels staff, with the exception of cantankerous guest services manager Miss Gunther Susan Kellermann, with her naive manner and forthright kindness, and mingles with some of the other guests, including Matthew Kragen Timothy Hutton, a selfhelp guru and coincidentally the owner of the store where she works his assistantmistress Ms. Burns Alicia Witt pandering Senator Dillings Giancarlo Esposito from her home state of Louisiana and prominent Congressman Stewart Michael Nouri. Kragen is skeptical about Georgias origins and suspects her of trying to sabotage his business, but the rest are charmed by her free spirit. ........

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