Holidate (2020)

Directed by

John Whitesell

Genre

Christmas film, romantic comedy film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 44m

Rated

M

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 2,378 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two single people who hate the pressure of being alone on holidays agree to be each other's platonic plus-ones for a year. They end up accidentally falling for each other.

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What happens

Holidate is a 2020 American romantic comedy film directed by John Whitesell and written by Tiffany Paulsen. It stars Emma Roberts, Luke Bracey, Jake Manley, Jessica Capshaw, Andrew Bachelor, Frances Fisher, Manish Dayal and Kristin Chenoweth. Sloane Benson, tired of familial pressure for being single on holidays, bumps into Australian stranger Jackson, who is also fed up with pressure on those dates, so they agree to platonically be each other's plus-ones all year long, inadvertently ending up mutually developing real feelings. The film was released on Netflix on October 28, 2020. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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