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76% Critic Match
The Holdovers
“Discomfort and joy.”
7.6 / 10• 2023• 2h 13m•R• English
DramaComedy
Storyline
A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school 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 — and with the school’s head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.
Cast & Crew
Paul Giamatti
Paul Hunham
Lead
Dominic Sessa
Angus Tully
Da'Vine Joy Randolph
Mary Lamb
Carrie Preston
Miss Lydia Crane
Brady Hepner
Teddy Kountze
Ian Dolley
Alex Ollerman
Jim Kaplan
Ye-Joon Park
Michael Provost
Jason Smith
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Alexander Payne's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
4.0
“Every frame feels alive. The Holdovers is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
