The Holdovers

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“★★★★! Gorgeous! With “The Holdovers,” (Director Alexander) Payne hasn’t just made a terrific movie, full stop. He’s breathed life into a cinematic form that has lately felt more endangered than ever. – Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post

From acclaimed director Alexander Payne (NEBRASKA, SIDEWAYS), 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).

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133Rated R
Aspect Ratio - Flat (1.66 : 1)
Distributor - Focus Features
in English

Showing Today at the Theater Mon, May 5

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