What if everything we knew about The Holiday was wrong?
We all love watching the romcom, starring Kate Winslet, Jude Law and Cameron Diaz, at this time of year.
However one fan of the film, which came out 15 years ago this week, has shared an incredibly chilling take on the Christmas flick that might completely change how you see it.
Cameron's character, Amanda, travels from the US to Surrey to live in Kate's character Iris' countryside cottage, and Iris jets to LA and lives in Amanda's mansion as they both desperately try to escape their romantic problems back home.
While Iris gets flirty with Jack Black's character Miles, Amanda falls in love with Graham, Iris's hunky brother, played by Jude Law.
To most of us, this seemed like a typical Hollywood plot, but some fans had a very different reading.
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A Reddit user named tectonic_fever shared a post on the Fan Theories forum suggesting Kate's character had much darker motives for using the Home Exchange website.
They believe Iris and her widower brother were really deceiving Amanda the entire time and were actually planning to murder her and steal her wealth.
"This idea makes the mediocre Christmas movie so much more entertaining," they wrote.
"Kate Winslet and Jude Law are laying a trap where he will seduce Cameron Diaz, marry her, kill her, and inherit her fortune.
"Jude Law already murdered his first wife so he could inherit her house.
"Now he and his sister have used the house swap scheme to get Cameron Diaz into their town, while Kate Winslet can investigate and make sure Cameron has enough money and property (and no family/entanglements) to be worth the effort of seducing her and then disposing of her."
They continued: "Kate is so overjoyed to see how grand and luxurious Cameron's house is because she knows she and Jude have hit the jackpot.
"Meanwhile, Jude carefully sets up an 'accidental' meeting and manipulates Cameron to develop a relationship and get his claws into her.
"Everything that follows is orchestrated to carry out their plot."
The user added: "Kate Winslet was maybe also planning to seduce and marry the old screenwriter and wait for him to die and leave her his house/fortune, until Jack Black interfered."
This isn't even the only ghostly theory about The Holiday.
A writer named Dana Schwartz wrote on EW.com that perhaps Amanda and Iris are dead, or in a limbo between life and death.
Iris is completely heartbroken at the start when she learns her colleague Jasper (Rufus Sewell) is marrying another woman, and so briefly turns on her gas stove and breathes in the fumes - before her computer pings and she snaps out of it, asking 'What am I doing?' and opening the window for fresh air.
Meanwhile, Amanda is breaking up with her boyfriend in LA at the same time, and notes she is struggling to breathe.
Dana suggested that as both women are teetering on the edge of death seconds before they decide to swap lives - maybe they did indeed die, and the rest of the film takes place in the afterlife, with the characters given another chance to realise their full potential.
She wrote: "What if these two women, thousands of miles and several time zones away, shuffled off their mortal coils at the same time, (Winslet's suicide attempt was in the evening, Diaz's terrible breakup ostensibly in the morning: considering one is in London and one is in California, these could be simultaneous) and their souls became entangled, presumably due to their complementing themes?
"Both Iris and Amanda have unfinished emotional business to resolve, and so the fates have ordained that they get a bit of time, a holiday, if you will, to sort themselves out before they're able to move on."
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