Release Date
October 27, 2023 (LA/NY)
November 3, 2023 (Limited)
Digital Date
January 2, 2024
MPAA Rating
Rated R for language, some drug use and brief sexual material
From acclaimed director Alexander Payne, THE HOLDOVERS follows a curmudgeonly instructor (Paul Giamatti) 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).
Sublime is the word to use for Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers, which stars Paul Giammati as a fucking asshole of a teacher who discovers he does indeed have a heart, thanks to an unlikely friendship formed with a student, who is also a fucking asshole.