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The Holdovers is a 2023 American Christmas comedy drama film directed by Alexander Payne and written by David Hemingson. Set in 1970, the film stars Paul Giamatti as a strict classics teacher at a New England boarding school who is forced to chaperone a handful of students with nowhere to go on the Christmas break.
The Holdovers. A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England school remains on campus during Christmas break. He soon forms an unlikely bond with a brainy but damaged troublemaker, and with the school's cook, a woman who just lost a son in the Vietnam War.
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- 2023-11-10
May 4, 2024 · Each holdover, like Jason, Alex, Teddy, Ye-Joon, and Angus, adds depth to the story and showcases different reasons for staying at the school. Despite the minor roles of the other holdovers, their interactions with Angus and Mr. Hunham help shape the characters and showcase their vulnerabilities.
Jan 19, 2024 · When Hunham is left supervising five boys over the Christmas break – the holdovers – he is thrown together with his B+ student, Angus Tully (Dominic Sessa), whose mother phones at the last minute to say he won’t be going on holiday in St Kitts with her as she and her new husband need some time alone. Tully is a skinny teenager with an odd ...
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...
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The Holdovers is a 2023 comedy-drama film directed by Alexander Payne (Sideways, The Descendants), starring Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, and Dominic Sessa. It's December 1970 , and Paul Hunham (Giamatti) is a curmudgeonly teacher at an elite New England boys' boarding school called the Barton Academy, where he has gotten himself into ...
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Jan 23, 2024 · For much of the run-time, only four characters, a curmudgeonly teacher (Giamatti), a grieving cook (Randolph), a troubled teenager (Dominic Sessa), and an affable janitor (Naheem Garcia),...
