Holiewood: From Rags To Cardboard

Holiewood, a 39-year-old Walmart door greeter, is fired after refusing to help an elderly customer. Desperate and financially strapped, he pursues a reinvention that backfires at every turn. He lies his way into a gig at a pizza place—working behind the salad bar, which he can’t do—then becomes a failed social media influencer and watches his savings vanish in a scammer’s crypto scheme. Meanwhile, his father lies dying in a care home and longs to see him. Holiewood refuses, weaving a string of ludicrous excuses: he’s allergic to hospitals, his car broke down, he has important meetings. His sister pleads with him, but he keeps lying and deflecting. As he stumbles through a succession of increasingly absurd situations, his father’s time runs out, and Holiewood never does the right thing.