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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Benjamin Lee

After Mother's Day: which holiday should be turned into a movie next?

Mother’s pay day ... Julia Roberts will be reuniting with director Garry Marshall, who she last worked with on Valentine’s Day.
Mother’s pay day ... Julia Roberts will be reuniting with director Garry Marshall, who she last worked with on Valentine’s Day. Photograph: Sportsphoto Ltd./Allstar

Ready the horsemen. This week has seen the news that Valentine’s Day and New Year’s Eve will be followed by Mother’s Day, a new star-studded pile of froth which will become the third chapter of Garry Marshall’s holiday-based trilogy.

The stars are already signing on (Julia Roberts, Jennifer Aniston, Kate Hudson and Jason Sudeikis so far) for a film with a similar plotline to the last two efforts (rich folk with perfect skin do some things in the space of a day) based on a script by someone who wrote Monster-In-Law. But before you look forward to ignoring it on a plane, what other holidays deserve the big screen treatment?

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