Platicsco Good story, Not enough for a whole film

AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

daoldiges Even though I like both Hepburn and Peck I've always kind of resisted seeing this movie for some reason. It was showing at Film Forum here in NYC the other day and I figured it was time that I checked it out. I was pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed it. I think all of the performances are good, not just Hepburn. Peck and Albert were both good and I think the Albert character was funny and provided an essential element to the success of this film. The only part of the film that does not work are the end scenes where the Hepburn character is publicly shared/introduced as a real princess. Royalty was viewed and revered differently when this film was originally released, but today those scenes feel stilted. Otherwise this is a light, carefree, and fun film.

HotToastyRag I know Roman Holiday won Audrey Hepburn an Oscar and made her an instant star, so I might be the only person in the world to say this, but I wish the producers had won out on their original choice to play the princess: Elizabeth Taylor. The second choice was Jean Simmons, but she couldn't get out of her studio contract, so I've read, and William Wyler became attached to Audrey Hepburn's screen test. The rest is history.Think about it, though. Elizabeth Taylor would have been perfect! She absolutely could have handled the royal scenes, and when the princess runs away from the palace in search of adventure, young Liz would have given a wonderful, wide-eyed, innocent, curious, charming, mischievous performance—a performance I didn't feel from Audrey Hepburn. Audrey came across as entitled, snobby, and worst of all, knowledgeable. The princess is supposed to be innocent, with a thirst for knowledge. She wants to see Italian landmarks, smoke her first cigarette, go to a nightclub, and get her hair cut. Audrey seems like she's already done all those things. Liz would have been better. And Jean Simmons would have been perfectly fine.Audrey's performance aside, there are two other actors who share the screen with her: Gregory Peck and Eddie Albert. They play a slacking reporter and photographer who discover the runaway princess and plan to write a front page news story about her. The rapport and snappy dialogue between them is pretty funny, but overall, I find Roman Holiday an overrated film. It's a light romance, and somehow was elevated to multi-Oscar winning, ultra-classic status. Whenever I watch it, I try and take it for what it is.

jacobs-greenwood Roman Holiday (1953) was filmed on location in Rome, Italy and, per TCM's host, was shot in black-and-white vs. Technicolor for budgetary reasons. Accordingly, since Gregory Peck had already been hired to play an uncharacteristically light (for him) Cary Grant- like role as the male lead, his romantic counterpart would have to be played by a relative unknown (e.g. someone producer-director William Wyler could get cheaply).Enter Miss Audrey Hepburn, who had appeared in barely (or should that be "barely appeared in") a handful of movies since her debut in 1951. But despite her short resume, the actress so impressed her co- star during the course of filming this one that Peck convinced Wyler to put her name above the title with his. Subsequently, the Academy endorsed the actor's assessment when they awarded Hepburn the Best Actress Oscar for her performance.She would go on to earn four more Best Actress nominations, among them the title role opposite Humphrey Bogart and William Holden in Billy Wilder's Sabrina (1954) the following year and as the iconic Holly Golightly (opposite George Peppard) in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), though Hepburn failed to earn a nomination for perhaps her most famous part as Eliza Doolittle in the Warner Bros. musical (adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion) My Fair Lady (1964). She was later voted the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award (e.g. for her work with UNICEF etc.).Hepburn's unique, regal beauty made her perfect for the role of Princess Ann in Roman Holiday (1953). The story opens with the young princess at the end of an exhausting, repetitious "public relations" tour of Europe. Having been sheltered all her life, she's quite naturally bored. She'd love to find excitement given her present routine, which is so mundane that a simple faux pas (such as her losing track of a high-heeled shoe before dancing with a head-of- state) causes a stir. Tired of it all, Princess Ann becomes tearfully hysterical at bedtime while going over the next day's agenda with her secretary.Borrowing a plot device from director Norman Krasna's Academy Award winning Original Screenplay for Princess O'Rourke (1943), blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo and screenwriters Ian McLellan Hunter and John Dighton utilized a hypodermic administered sedative (in lieu of too many sleeping pills) to handicap their princess in this one. But that's not where the similarities end: as Krasna did with his title character (played by Olivia de Havilland), once she's out of her protective custody environment, the seemingly inebriated princess falls into the hands of the unawares male protagonist who, fortunately, is chivalrous instead of lecherous, and the romance part of the comedy begins. From there the plots of these two movies diverge - Robert Cummings is a pilot and the conflict is a familiar commoner-that-wants-to-marry-into-royalty routine whereas Peck plays newspaper reporter Joe Bradley who, after learning the identity of the sleeping beauty that just spent the night in his apartment is Princess Ann, fully intends to exploit the situation by selling her exclusive story to his publisher for $5,000 (he doesn't let on that he knows who she is; the princess says her name is Anya and cuts her hair to keep from being recognized in public) - but the end of Roman Holiday (1953) is remarkably similar to a famous romance drama classic.Princess Ann's whirlwind twenty-four hour vacation in Rome includes Hepburn's spontaneous reaction to Peck's appearing to lose his hand in the Mouth of Truth and several other slapstick sequences: Joe interrupting his photographer friend Irving Radovich (Eddie Albert's first Oscar nominated Supporting Actor role) to keep him from spilling the beans (e.g. that they know her identity) on several occasions, a harrowing ride on a motorbike through several street vendors such that the three of them end up appearing before a local police chief, and a comedic brawl at an open air nightclub where the princess's countrymen find her (and try to compel her to return with them). She and Joe escape via a canal (my daughter laughed out loud when the princess grabbed her nose and jumped into the water), swimming to the other side, which is (at the very least) a more original way to get the two leads wet for their first kiss than the more stereotypical rainstorm, right? But alas, even though they've fallen in love, it's an impossible situation, so it must end.In a twist on Casablanca (1942), it's her (the princess), not him, with a sense of duty that stops the romance in its tracks ... but they'll always have Rome. Upon her return to the embassy, it's clear that she's matured quite a bit (after just one day on the outside) as she alters the bedtime ritual. But he too is noble and later - when they meet again while back in their respective roles, and Princess Ann learns that Joe is a reporter - he conveys that her secrets are safe with him (e.g. he isn't going to write about their exploits together, despite his need for the money), and then Irving gives the princess the pictures he'd surreptitiously taken as mementos of her holiday.Like Grant before him, Peck's understated performance in this romantic comedy went unrecognized in a year in which actors in two different war movies, and two others featuring Romans, were instead. Edith Head won her fourth of eight Academy Awards (from 34 nominations) for her B&W Costume Design (love those striped pajamas!), and Trumbo's widow was eventually presented the Oscar for his Motion Picture Story, which was originally given to Hunter, who'd fronted for the blacklisted writer.The film was also nominated for Best Picture, as was director Wyler, the aforementioned screenplay writers, editor Robert Swink, its B&W Art Direction-Set Decoration & Cinematography. Plus, it was added to the National Film Registry in 1999. At least AFI voters did recognize it as the fourth best love story of all time.

hippo sherbini It's one of the most enjoyable movies I ever watched . when I watched for the first time as a teen it lighted in my mind in all its details, even when I watched it after twenty it like I just watched yesterday. It's one of the most romantic films in the history of cinema and met with unprecedented success on it's debut , when the American audience saw the princes of hearts for the first time "Audrey Hepburn, which succeeded in that capture the hearts of viewers in this film, and won the Oscar for best actress.The story of the film briefly about a little European princess traveling tour of duty in Europe and suffers from a formal interview and protocol rules pressures during her visit to Rome , so she ran away from her residence and met with a press corresponds which she spent a whole day with him around the city of Rome, Performance of Romance, Comedy stunning Audrey Hepburn in this film to make anyone who has watched the film fascinated with it to the point of obsession, especially since Hepburn, which resulted in the role of Princess brilliantly belong to the ownership of the assets already make a donation in their role, as well as scenes of the city of Rome Fine Living, which wandered on Vespa (motorcycle) some even say that anyone who has watched the film spent nights dreaming Hepburn and half of them also dream of riding the Vespa.memory don't forget this movie easily, does not mean never forget the memory and includes a scene of the end of the end of the most beautiful sights to be seen in the film.You are a lover of classic movies, bear watching a movie is not in color, you are a romantic, a dreamer, loves to travel, believe in love in 24 hours, this movie is definitely for you.