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The Holdovers

20232h 13mDrama · Comedy
directed by Alexander Payne

“Discomfort and joy.”

7.2 / 10 Compare with…17 stills

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7.2 / 10
TMDB
7.6 / 10
2,542 votes
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7.9 / 10
247,029 votes
Metacritic
82 / 100
Rotten Tomatoes
97%

The scorecard 7.2 / 10

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Synopsis

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.

Cast

Paul Giamatti·Paul Hunham
Dominic Sessa·Angus Tully
Da'Vine Joy Randolph·Mary Lamb
Carrie Preston·Miss Lydia Crane
Brady Hepner·Teddy Kountze
Ian Dolley·Alex Ollerman
Jim Kaplan·Ye-Joon Park
Michael Provost·Jason Smith
Andrew Garman·Dr. Hardy Woodrup
Naheem Garcia·Danny

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