Late October is certainly premature for Christmas festivities (unless you are a department store), but Netflix’s first holiday movie of 2020, Holidate, is evergreen.
Written by Tiffany Paulsen and directed by John Whitesell, Holidate stars Emma Roberts and off-brand Chris Hemsworth Luke Bracey as Sloane and Jackson, two perpetual singles who agree to be each other’s “holidates”: platonic plus ones for regular occasions that one would rather not spend alone or answering awkward questions…