A New York City social worker gets caught up in a Washington socialite's kidnapping in 'Lost Holiday.'
The freewheeling, DIY quality of “Lost Holiday” works both for and against this quasi-caper comedy. Although the Super-16mm-shot film from writer-director brothers Michael Kerry Matthews and Thomas Matthews coasts on ragtag charm and bits of gutsy spontaneity, deepening the story and characters, plus throwing in at least a tad more logic, would have helped — without killing its mumblecore-style vibe.
Margaret and Henry are old high school friends now living in New York who return home to the Washington, D.C., area for the Christmas-to-New Year’s week. After reuniting with two other local pals — Sam and Mark , Margaret’s ex-squeeze now tenuously engaged to be married — Margaret and Thomas fall into some very amateur sleuthing to solve a kidnapping plot involving a wealthy land developer’s wild-child daughter , a heavily tattooed drug dealer and a volatile record producer .
The surly Margaret and perpetually giddy Thomas, often fueled by drugs, booze, boredom and a kind of louche integrity, prove a hapless but intrepid pair of criminal hunters. Meanwhile, they navigate a push-pull with adulthood that adds some thematic dimension but never plays out enough to fully humanize our privileged, narcissistic protagonists. And what’s with all those finger-gun gestures? Sorry, not cute.
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