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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.
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 ...
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.
Nov 10, 2023 · The Holdovers is the story of three fractured people—Paul, Angus, and Mary, played respectively by Paul Giamatti, Dominic Sessa, and Da'Vine Joy Randolph —thrust together in an empty boarding...
- David Hemingson
Feb 16, 2024 · “The Holdovers” treads that ambiguous middle ground between comedy and drama as these three grieving people slowly grow on each other, drawing comfort from their company.
- Melanie Mcfarland
Jan 27, 2024 · Alexander Payne's The Holdovers is a bittersweet character study, but there's a reason it is becoming a feel-good Christmas movie in spite of the film's seemingly cold ending.
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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), occupy...