Recent films: Holiday in the wild (15th December)

My rating: 🔔🔔🔔🔔

Let's not beat around the bush here, Holiday in the Wild is not a Christmas film.  I believed it was, and the original title was Christmas in the Wild, and there are some Christmas scenes, but really, this is in the same vein as Wild, Eat Pray Love, where a woman goes away and discovers herself, and something she's passionate about.

This film was one that Kristin Davis was trying to get made for a while, as she is passionate about elephant conservation.

Now we've got all that out of the way, let's talk about the film! Kristin Davis plays Kate, a New Yorker, whose son is off to college for the first time, and whose husband announces, as soon as the son has left, that he wants a divorce as he's no longer happy.  Kate had booked a safari as a surprise for them both, as a second honeymoon, so they could reconnect.  So she goes off on the safari on her own.

Rob Lowe (yes, big names in this Netflix film!) plays Derek, a small plane pilot, who takes people on their safaris, but who lives at an elephant sanctuary, and who is always on the lookout for hurt or killed elephants.  He spots a dead elephant with a living calf on the flight to take Kate to her safari, and so diverts to call in help.  Kate decides to go with the calf, and announces that she's a former vet, who stopped practicing, but can help out, and so decides to do that instead of going on safari.

Whilst this wasn't a Christmas film, I did enjoy it.  The setting is beautiful, the story was enjoyable and I liked the story of self discovery.