The Holdovers

In The Holdovers, Paul Hunham, a universally disliked professor at a prep school called Barton Academy. With no family and nowhere to go around the holidays in 1970, he stays on campus to supervise students who couldn’t go home. After a few days, only one person is left: a troublemaking 17-year-old named Angus, a good student whose bad behavior always threatens to get him expelled. Along with the school’s head cook Mary, whose own son was recently lost in Vietnam, the three form an unlikely bond as they spend Christmas together during two very snowy weeks in New England.

The Holdovers

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November 10, 2023 (Limited)

 

About the Film

In The Holdovers, Paul Hunham, a universally disliked professor at a prep school called Barton Academy. With no family and nowhere to go around the holidays in 1970, he stays on campus to supervise students who couldn’t go home. After a few days, only one person is left: a troublemaking 17-year-old named Angus, a good student whose bad behavior always threatens to get him expelled. Along with the school’s head cook Mary, whose own son was recently lost in Vietnam, the three form an unlikely bond as they spend Christmas together during two very snowy weeks in New England.

  • Paul Giamatti
  • Da’Vine Joy Randolph
  • Dominic Sessa
  • Alexander Payne
    Director
  • David Hemingson
    Writer/Producer
  • Mark Johnson
    Producer
  • Bill Block
    Producer
  • Chris Stinson
    Executive Producer
  • Tom Williams
    Executive Producer
  • Andrew Golov
    Executive Producer
  • Thom Zadra
    Executive Producer