Holidate

    Holidate
    2020

    Synopsis

    Fed up with being single on holidays, two strangers agree to be each other's platonic plus-ones all year long, only to catch real feelings along the way.

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    Cast

    • Emma RobertsSloane
    • Luke BraceyJackson
    • Kristin ChenowethAunt Susan
    • Frances FisherElaine
    • Andrew BachelorNeil
    • Manish DayalFaarooq
    • Jessica CapshawAbby
    • Alex MoffatPeter
    • Cynthy WuLiz
    • Jake ManleyYork

    Recommendations

    • 67

      The A.V. Club

      Like so much of Netflix’s quantity over quality output, Holidate is broad, unsubtle, and seemingly designed to be half-watched, phone in hand. Yet within that framework, it finds a unique comedic spark that keeps it zipping along.
    • 63

      The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

      The movie surprises on almost every level, breaking a number of contemporary rom-com rules along the way thanks to Tiffany Paulsen’s self-aware screenplay. I don’t mean in the meta-satirical sense of, say, David Wain’s absurdist They Came Together. More like a watered down Nora Ephron project.
    • 58

      IndieWire

      Predictability doesn’t have to be a sin when it comes to the often paint-by-the-numbers world of romantic comedy, but this awkward combination of expectation and disdain for it make for a film only fleetingly worthy of celebration.
    • 56

      Polygon

      Though the central idea is fun, everything that’s been built around it feels rote, if not totally outdated.
    • 50

      The Hollywood Reporter

      It's a fun conceit trapped in a broad and retrograde flick.
    • 50

      Chicago Sun-Times

      An excruciatingly cheesy, hopelessly dated, profoundly unfunny and tone-deaf romantic comedy about an intelligent, hard-working, likable and lovely woman.
    • 40

      Los Angeles Times

      In such troubled times, one supposes there’s comfort to be found in the lack of adventurousness of Holidate, but it’s like opening the same present again and again.
    • 38

      Boston Globe

      In trying to play up the naughty, witty side of the rom-com equation, the movie settles for snarky. It’s an acrid fairy tale, if not without a few pleasures, and it arrives on Netflix just in time for — wait, Christmas?