The Holdovers
Directed by Alexander Payne
Starring Paul Giamatti, Dominic Sessa, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Carrie Preston, Brady Hepner, Ian Dolley, Jim Kaplan, Michael Provost, Andrew Garman, Naheem Garcia
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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.
- Original language
- English
- Screenplay
- David Hemingson
- Music
- Mark Orton
- Cinematography
- Eigil Bryld
- Cast
- Carrie Preston, Brady Hepner, Ian Dolley, Jim Kaplan, Michael Provost, Andrew Garman, Naheem Garcia, Stephen Thorne, Gillian Vigman
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Updated July 22, 2026
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