It comes following rumours of a sequel featuring the original cast
FANS of The Holiday have unearthed a huge plot hole in the smash hit Christmas movie – despite watching it ‘a million times’ before.
The popular festive flick has a stellar cast, including Cameron Diaz, Jude Law, Kate Winslet and Jack Black, and it is a massive festive favourite at this time of year.
But fans of The Holiday have begun speaking out after being left puzzled by one storyline in the movie.
Jude Law‘s character Graham is a widower in the film following the death of his wife.
It later transpires that he has two young daughters, called Sophie and Olivia, who he is single-handedly raising.
But throughout the film, as he begins falling for Cameron Diaz’s character Amanda, Graham’s daughters keep disappearing.
Graham first meets American movie director Amanda on a drunken walk home from the pub.
He knocks on the door of his sister Iris’s cottage to find Amanda there following a house swap. Graham then decides to stay the night.
Later in the movie, Graham arranges to meet Amanda at the pub for the evening and later, he even declares that he ‘has the girls on New Year’s Eve’.
But one fan asked on X, formerly known as Twitter: “I am watching The Holiday and am I going mad, at the end of the movie Jude Law says ‘I have the girls on New Year’s Eve’ – sorry their mother is dead, who else would have them Jude?”
Others have called out the character for his repeated absence as a father, too.
“Rewatching The Holiday for the millionth time and wondering – does Jude Law just leave his sleeping kids alone to go meet Cameron Diaz in the middle of the night or what?” someone posted.
Another agreed: “Watched that movie yesterday for like the 5th time and I always think that. I guess there is someone else tho who watches the kids sometimes because otherwise he couldn’t go out to the pub.”
And a third wrote: ‘I’m watching the Holiday and I must know- who watches Jude Law’s kids when he is getting p***ed at the pub and staying at his sister’s house?”
A fourth even shared a WhatsApp chat they’d had with a friend about the storyline.
The message read: “How does Jude Law get such last minute childcare in The Holiday on Christmas Eve so he can go and b*** Cameron Diaz?”
The Holiday was released in 2006 and is a festive favourite among Christmas film fans. It is currently streaming on Netflix.
It follows the story of a house swap between Brit Iris and LA-based Amanda for Christmas, with both finding love in each other’s world.
There had been talk of the cast reuniting to film a sequel, however these rumours were quashed last year.
Original writer-director Nancy Meyers took to Instagram and said: “So many DM’s about this — sorry but it’s not true.”
