133 mins |
Rated
R (for language, some drug use and brief sexual material.)
Directed by Alexander Payne
Starring Carrie Preston, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Dominic Sessa, Paul Giamatti
From acclaimed director Alexander Payne, The Holdovers follows a curmudgeonly instructor (Paul Giamatti- winner of the Golden Globe award for this role and nominated for an Academy Award) at a New England prep school who 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 (newcomer Dominic Sessa) -- and with the school’s head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam (Da'Vine Joy Randolph- winner of the Golden Globe award for this role and nominated for an Academy Award).
The Holdovers has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture, Best Screenplay and Best Editing, a Golden Globe award for Best Picture- Musical or Comedy and 4 Independent Spirit Awards.
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From acclaimed director Alexander Payne, The Holdovers follows a curmudgeonly instructor (Paul Giamatti- winner of the Golden Globe award for this role and nominated for an Academy Award) at a New England prep school who 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 (newcomer Dominic Sessa) -- and with the school’s head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam (Da'Vine Joy Randolph- winner of the Golden Globe award for this role and nominated for an Academy Award).
The Holdovers has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture, Best Screenplay and Best Editing, a Golden Globe award for Best Picture- Musical or Comedy and 4 Independent Spirit Awards.