The Holdovers (2023)

Name: The Holdovers
Released: 2023
Rating: 7.7
Cast: Paul Giamatti, Dominic Sessa, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Carrie Preston, Brady Hepner

• Movies, Comedy, Drama

• 133 min

7.6

Discomfort and joy.

Directed by: Alexander Payne
Casting: Paul Giamatti, Dominic Sessa, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Carrie Preston, Brady Hepner, Ian Dolley, Jim Kaplan, Michael Provost, Andrew Garman, Naheem Garcia, Stephen Thorne, Gillian Vigman, Tate Donovan, Darby Lee-Stack, Bill Mootos, Dustin Tucker, Juanita Pearl, Alexander Cook, Liz Bishop, Cole Tristan Murphy, Will Sussbauer, Carter Shimp, Michael Malvesti, Dakota Lustick, Melissa McMeekin, Jonathan von Mering, Rena Maliszewski, Osmani Rodriguez, Oscar Wahlberg, Dan Aid, Mike Kaz, Kelly AuCoin, Colleen Clinton, Fred Robbins, David J. Curtis, Pamela Jayne Morgan, Davis Robinson, Joe Howell, Peter Krasinski, Greg Chopoorian, Ian Lyons, Kevin Fennessy, Kevin Daigneault, Bhanu Gopal
Countries: United States of America
Premiere: 2023-10-27
Status: Released

Tags: vietnam war, winter, boarding school, holiday, boston, massachusetts, 1970s, alcoholism, grief, misfit, mental illness, teacher student relationship, new england, nostalgic, boys' boarding school, christmas, winter break, troubled youth, loss of son, playful, intimate, christmas time, cook, sentimental, hilarious, compassionate

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.