If you guessed from this blog title that this entry is about my viewing of Roman Holiday, than congratulations, you are correct. Although, how one could have missed that I do not know. When I was a child, the movie that I watched whenever I stayed home sick (my sick-day movie) was Disney's Mulan. Now, as a teenager, it's Roman Holiday. I get into my pajamas, I fix myself a bowl of chicken noodle soup, and get some saltine crackers. I sit down on my cushy leather couch, and I watch Audrey do her thing.
It is a great honor to watch Roman Holiday. Gregory Peck is nearing his peak in this film, and Audrey Hepburn is just getting started, but is still remarkable.
Here's the story: Hepburn is a princess tired of her royal life. She escapes her protectors, and is taken in by Gregory Peck, a pessimistic journalist stuck in Rome because he can't hold on to money. Discovering that he's housing the runaway princess that will make the story of his career, he bets his boss that he can get a scoop on her story. Through the process of attempting to get a story, he shows her Rome, and the two fall in love.
It's a truly great movie that is simply a romance, with charm, great acting, humour, conflict, and some heart-break. Highly recommended sick day movie.
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