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The Holdovers (2023)

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Discomfort and joy.

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.

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Cast & Crew

Director
Alexander Payne
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    Paul Hunham Paul Giamatti
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    Angus Tully Dominic Sessa
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    Mary Lamb Da'Vine Joy Randolph
  • Profile picture of Carrie Preston
    Miss Lydia Crane Carrie Preston
  • Profile picture of Brady Hepner
    Teddy Kountze Brady Hepner
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    Alex Ollerman Ian Dolley
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    Ye-Joon Park Jim Kaplan
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    Jason Smith Michael Provost

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Keywords

  • vietnam war
  • winter
  • boarding school
  • holiday
  • boston, massachusetts
  • 1970s
  • alcoholism
  • grief
  • misfit
  • mental illness
  • teacher student relationship
  • new england
  • nostalgic
  • boys' boarding school
  • christmas
  • winter break
  • troubled youth
  • loss of son
  • playful
  • intimate
  • christmas time
  • cook
  • sentimental
  • hilarious
  • compassionate