THE HOLDOVERS

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Comedy, Drama | 133 MIN | US

From acclaimed director Alexander Payne, 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).

FESTIVALS
Aspen Film Filmfest 2023, Toronto International Film Festival 2023
DIRECTOR
Alexander Payne
WRITER
David Hemingson
WITH
Paul Giamatti, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Dominic Sessa, and Carrie Preston

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