The Holdovers

IMDb

7.9/10

Rated

R

The Holdovers is a 2023 comedy drama directed by Alexander Payne and set in New England in 1970. Paul Giamatti plays Paul Hunham, a strict and unpopular classics teacher at Barton Academy who is forced to stay on campus over Christmas to supervise the students with nowhere to go. Left alone with clever, rebellious Angus Tully and the school cook Mary Lamb, who is mourning her son lost in Vietnam, the unlikely trio slowly form a bond during the holidays.

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