Special Report: Sell Out (2025)

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Tv & Film, Film Interviews, Film Reviews, Film History

4.6 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Mike sits down with the sibling filmmaking duo Josh Holden and Nick Holden (a.k.a. the Holden Brothers) to unpack their sharp new dramedy Sell Out, which premiered at the Austin Film Festival. Shot in and around Austin and Louisiana, the film follows novelist Benny Dink as his career stalls, his love life unravels and a too-good-to-pass ghostwriting job forces him into a reckoning with art, ambition and identity.

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0:00.0	Hold your ears, folks.
0:06.8	It's showtime.
0:08.6	People pay good money to see this movie.
0:10.9	When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth.
0:17.3	Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.
0:20.0	Shut it off.
0:22.6	Turn it off.
0:27.6	Yeah. Dad.
0:41.1	Yeah?
0:41.9	What's wrong?
0:45.9	What if my next book is not good or witty and has no commentary and just kind of repeats itself?
0:51.5	I'm not inspired. I don't feel like anything funny to say. Horrible. I'm a little anxious. I just been in a funk. In your gut or... No, no. Really? I'm just having trouble with writing. Unless it's obstructing your colon, I don't know that I can help. Oh. You should have called me for a beer if you wanted to hang. I know. 10 a.m. New York Times interview. I think coming here was a terrible idea. I mean, when did coffee shops become people's second home? This guy's doing me a favor. A favor? I thought you said he wanted to do this. Just don't ramble. 1 p.m. drop off Lily at ex-wives. And I think you would agree that it's not my week.
1:28.7	Danny, how's the book coming?
1:29.7	Horrible, man.
1:30.5	I believe in you.
1:31.1	Oh, good.
1:31.7	I'll see you later.
1:32.5	Okay, bye, sweetie.
1:33.7	Just abs are not realistic.
1:35.1	What a man has to give up for abs like that is not even worth it.
1:38.4	4 p.m., call my sister back.
1:40.3	It's a lot to ask me to come in. This is your sister's wedding. Get your ass here, okay?
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