It's a beautiful snapshot into the past, both for the historic look of Rome and to witness the birth of the romantic comedy.
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11/19/08
Roman Holiday (1953)
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Reviews Counted:41
Fresh:40
Rotten:1
Average Rating:8.2/10
Consensus: With Audrey Hepburn luminous in her American debut, Roman Holiday is as funny as it is beautiful, and sets the standard for the modern romantic comedy.
Runtime: 1 hr 58 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: This classic romantic comedy introduced Audrey Hepburn to audiences as a modern-day princess. Stifled by her royal entourage on a trip to Rome, Hepburn's Princess Ann escapes to explore the Italian... [More]
Starring: Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, Eddie Albert, Tullio Carminati
Director: William Wyler
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Reviews for Roman Holiday
The Roman travelogue is pleasant enough, and Audrey Hepburn is positively peerless.
02/14/04
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01/07/05
Audrey Hepburn won an Oscar and popular acclaim in this story of a princess who breaks free of the palace and has a fling with Gregory Peck.
03/10/03
The mix of silly comedy and innocent love turns the viewer into a willing tourist.
04/17/01
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10/31/02
The film itself is a classic of romantic wish fulfillment, exactly the sort of beautiful lie that Hollywood specialized in.
01/24/03
[An] unfailingly lovely fairy tale.
04/01/08
Wyler lays out all the elements with care and precision, but the romantic comedy never comes together -- it's charm by computer.
08/13/07
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11/01/05
Roman Holiday is [Audrey Hepburn's] perfect picture.
01/01/00
Hepburn is utterly beguiling in her star-making role opposite Peck in a delightful romantic comedy about a poised young princess of an unspecified European country who spends a magical day with an American reporter playing hooky.
08/22/03
Wyler's direction is heavyhanded (imagine what Lubitsch or Capra would have done with the romantic tale), but the actors (Audrey Hepburn, Gregory Peck, and Eddie Albert) are charming and on-location shoot in Rome is major benefit even if the film is b/w.
02/16/07
Timeless, exuberant classic, with Hepburn's naïve sense of fun and perfectly charming performance matched equally by Peck's lauche and charismatic worldy American.
03/30/03
If only more filmmakers would remember that not all fairy-tale romances need to have a pat, happily-ever-after ending.
11/25/08
A lovely little romance, full of fun and playfulness, stellar performances (Hepburn won an Oscar and Albert was nominated), and all set against the beauty of Rome
11/16/02
A stunning film debut by Audrey Hepburn, charming, gaminlike, a delight.
08/13/02
Features one of the greatest endings to come from Hollywood
04/29/05
One of the best romantic films of all time.
05/30/01
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