The Holdovers
Film details
| Film Title | The Holdovers |
|---|---|
| Suitability | |
| Genre | |
| Length | 133mins |
| Year | 2023 |
| Country | United States of America |
| Director | Alexander Payne |
| Actors | 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 |
| Language | English |
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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.
Paul Giamatti is a grinchy teacher in Alexander Payne’s loveable answer to The Breakfast Club.
★★★★
In Payne’s work, one individual’s foibles and failings can open another’s perception; his humans lead not by example, but through their flaws. This is one of the director’s greatest films.
★★★★
