The Holdovers

Oct 27, 2023

2h 13m

★ 7.6

Discomfort and joy.

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.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

Production Companies

Miramax

Gran Via Productions

The Holdovers Trailers

Cast

Paul Hunham

Paul Giamatti

Angus Tully

Dominic Sessa

Mary Lamb

Da'Vine Joy Randolph

Miss Lydia Crane

Carrie Preston

Teddy Kountze

Brady Hepner

Alex Ollerman

Ian Dolley

Ye-Joon Park

Jim Kaplan

Jason Smith

Michael Provost

Dr. Hardy Woodrup

Andrew Garman

Danny

Naheem Garcia

Thomas Tully

Stephen Thorne

Judy Clotfelter

Gillian Vigman

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