From acclaimed director Alexander Payne (Sideways, Nebraska, About Schmidt), The Holdovers follows a curmudgeonly instructor (Paul Giamatti) at a New England prep school who is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually he forms an unlikely bond with one of them — a damaged, brainy troublemaker (newcomer Dominic Sessa) — and with the school’s head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam (Da’Vine Joy Randolph).
The Holdovers is a warm blanket on a sad day – an unconventional Christmas movie that finds reasons to move forward even in the hardest of times.
Austin Chronicle
Funny and rueful, The Holdovers seems beamed in from another time in cinema history, when wordy and thoughtful little movies like this were in healthier supply.
Vanity Fair
| Genre |
Best of the YearComedyDrama
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| Runtime | 133 minutes |
| Rated | 14A |
| Directed By | Alexander Payne |
| Starring | Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Dominic Sessa |
| Language | English |
| Country |
USA
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