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The Holdovers

Name: The Holdovers
Director: Alexander Payne
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: 2023-10-27
Cast: Paul Giamatti, Dominic Sessa, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Carrie Preston, Brady Hepner

DramaComedy

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

Paul GiamattiDominic SessaDa'Vine Joy RandolphCarrie PrestonBrady HepnerIan DolleyJim KaplanMichael ProvostAndrew GarmanNaheem GarciaStephen ThorneGillian Vigman

Director

Alexander Payne

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