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The Holdovers(2023)

R
2h 13m
- Comedy
- Drama

Release Date: Oct 27, 2023 | Wide

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 Viet...

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Releases

Original Release | Oct 27, 2023

Box Office

Results

Opening Weekend US & Canada:
$211,093
Total US & Canada:
$20,355,375
Total International
$25,279,655
Total Worldwide:
$45,635,030

Director & Top Cast

Alexander Payne
Director

Paul Giamatti
Paul Hunham

Da’Vine Joy Randolph
Mary Lamb

Dominic Sessa
Angus Tully

Carrie Preston
Miss Lydia Crane

Brady Hepner
Teddy Kountze

Ian Dolley

Alex Ollerman

Jim Kaplan

Ye-Joon Park

Michael Provost

Jason Smith

Andrew Garman

Dr. Hardy Woodrup

Naheem Garcia

Danny

Stephen Thorne

Thomas Tully

Gillian Vigman

Judy Clotfelter

Tate Donovan

Stanley Clotfelter

Darby Lee-Stack

Elise

Bill Mootos

Mr. Endicott

Dustin Tucker

Mr. Rosenswieg

Juanita Pearl

Mary's Sister Peggy

Technical Specifications

Sound Mix: Dolby Digital

Aspect Ratio: 1.66 : 1

Other Details

Country of Origin: United States

Language: English

Summaries

Storyline

Nobody likes teacher Paul Hunham (Giamatti) -- not his students, not his fellow faculty, not the headmaster, who all find his pomposity and rigidity exasperating. With no family and nowhere to go over Christmas holiday in 1970, Paul remains at school to supervise students unable to journey home. After a few days, only one student holdover remains -- a trouble-making 18-year-old named Angus, a good student whose bad behavior always threatens to get him expelled. Joining Paul and Angus is head cook Mary (Randolph)- who caters to sons of privilege and whose own son was recently lost in Vietnam. These three very different shipwrecked people form an unlikely Christmas family sharing comic misadventures during two very snowy weeks in New England. The real journey is how they help one another understand that they are not beholden to their past-they can choose their own futures. New England, December 1970. Having caught unwelcome attention after getting up the headmaster's nose, Paul Hunham, the prestigious Barton Academy's sardonic, inflexible Ancient Civilisations teacher, now pays the price. As a result, saddled with supervising five holdovers, students who can't return home for Christmas break, Paul must follow the school's standard schedule and endure two long weeks with the unwanted sons of privilege. After all, it's not that the unloved professor had any plans for the holidays. Now stuck with babysitting duty, the unwavering curmudgeon has one final chance to look life straight in the eye, stay true to himself, and reevaluate the quiet power of unexpected kindness and friendship. But what could a brilliant academic have in common with a bright teenage rebel and a grieving cafeteria manager? — Nick Riganas It's December 1970 and school is out for the Christmas holiday. Unfortunately, due to personal circumstances some won't be leaving for the holiday: one teacher and five teens will spend Christmas at the school. The curmudgeonly teacher, Paul Hunham, is out to make the experience as school-like as possible. — grantss

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