The Holdovers
7.6/10
Rating
133 min
Runtime
2023
Release Year
Alexander Payne
Director
Cast
Paul Giamatti, Dominic Sessa, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Carrie Preston, Brady Hepner
Quick Synopsis
During Christmas break at a New England prep school, a grumpy instructor is required to stay on campus to supervise a small group of students who cannot go home for the holidays. Over time, he develops an unexpected friendship with one of these students, a troubled but intelligent young man, as well as with the school's head cook, who is grieving the recent loss of her son in the Vietnam War.
Detailed Synopsis of The Holdovers
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.
