The Holdovers

Dir: Alexander Payne 2023 | 133 minsThe Holdovers follows a curmudgeonly instructor (Paul Giamatti) at a prestigious American 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)‘Hilarious and heartfelt, it’s a tale to be treasured’ ★★★★★ Empire