People Hold On is a film that explores the extended family of friends we all have and how we face the approach of adulthood together, as time pulls us apart. Past conflicts and tensions arise when a group of friends spend the weekend together to celebrate an upcoming wedding.
There's a stylistic gambit at the end that doesn't work at all, but right up until that point People Hold On is a fine little picture. Count me in for Seater's next one.
National Post
October 09, 2015
Unfortunately, all of this has to work against writing that is chokingly self-conscious, starting with the well-worn set-up and extending to dialogue that always sounds like screenwriter-y tics.
There's a natural, improvised feel. The so-so ending is abrupt - what happens to these people? We don't know and they don't know, which, of course, is exactly the point.
