Movie
The Holdovers
Overview
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.
Details
- Release date
- 2023-10-27
- Runtime
- 133 min
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Miramax, Gran Via Productions
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Paul Giamatti as Paul Hunham
- Dominic Sessa as Angus Tully
- Da'Vine Joy Randolph as Mary Lamb
- Carrie Preston as Miss Lydia Crane
- Brady Hepner as Teddy Kountze
- Ian Dolley as Alex Ollerman
- Jim Kaplan as Ye-Joon Park
- Michael Provost as Jason Smith
- Andrew Garman as Dr. Hardy Woodrup
- Naheem Garcia as Danny
- Stephen Thorne as Thomas Tully
- Gillian Vigman as Judy Clotfelter
Crew
- Alexander Payne - Director
- David Hemingson - Writer
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