20232h 13mDir. Alexander Payne

The Holdovers

Name: The Holdovers
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: 2023-10-27
Duration: 2 h 13 min
Rating: 5
Cast: Paul Giamatti, Dominic Sessa, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Carrie Preston, Brady Hepner

“Discomfort and joy.”

DramaComedy

5.0 / 5.0

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1st Half: 5.0 ★vs2nd Half: 5.0 ★

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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.

Starring:Paul Giamatti,Dominic Sessa,Da'Vine Joy Randolph,Carrie Preston,Brady Hepner

Featured Cast

(12 actors)

Paul Giamatti

Paul Hunham

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

Andrew Garman

Dr. Hardy Woodrup

Naheem Garcia

Danny

Stephen Thorne

Thomas Tully

Gillian Vigman

Judy Clotfelter

Key Production Crew

Director

Alexander Payne

Screenplay & Writers

David Hemingson

Cinematography

Eigil Bryld

Original Score

Mark Orton

Producers

Mark Johnson, Bill Block, David Hemingson

Film Details

Budget$13,000,000

Box Office Revenue$42,513,270

Original Languageen

Production Studios

MiramaxGran Via Productions

Keywords & Themes

#vietnam war#winter#boarding school#holiday#boston, massachusetts#1970s#melancholy#alcoholism#grief#misfit

Community Reviews & Logs

Aniket Shukla @aniket11

Oct 13, 2026

1ST WATCHImported Log

5.0

Oh, what a glorious, melancholic, and utterly human piece of cinema The Holdovers is! It doesn’t just tell you how to live—no, no, that would be too easy. It reaches into your chest, grabs hold of that fragile, beating t...

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