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The Holdovers

The Holdovers

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The Holdovers

"Discomfort and joy."

2023

2h 13m

7.6(2568 votes)

Drama

Comedy

Overview

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

10 featured cast members

Starring

Paul Giamatti

Paul Giamatti

Paul Hunham

Dominic Sessa

Dominic Sessa

Angus Tully

Da'Vine Joy Randolph

Da'Vine Joy Randolph

Mary Lamb

Carrie Preston

Carrie Preston

Miss Lydia Crane

Brady Hepner

Brady Hepner

Teddy Kountze

Ian Dolley

Ian Dolley

Alex Ollerman

Jim Kaplan

Jim Kaplan

Ye-Joon Park

Michael Provost

Michael Provost

Jason Smith

Andrew Garman

Andrew Garman

Dr. Hardy Woodrup

Naheem Garcia

Naheem Garcia

Danny

Creative team

Directed by: Alexander Payne
Written by: David Hemingson
Produced by: Mark Johnson
David Hemingson

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