The Holdovers Movie Cast, Plot and Everything to Know

Plot

What's the story about?

Plot

In The Holdovers, Paul Hunham, a universally disliked professor at a prep school called Barton Academy. With no family and nowhere to go around the holidays in 1970, he stays on campus to supervise students who couldn’t go home. After a few days, only one person is left: a troublemaking 17-year-old named Angus, a good student whose bad behavior always threatens to get him expelled. Along with the school’s head cook Mary, whose own son was recently lost in Vietnam, the three form an unlikely bond as they spend Christmas together during two very snowy weeks in New England.

Comedy Drama

Top Cast

The lead cast starring in The Holdovers.

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  Paul Giamatti

  Jungle Cruise, Downton Abbey 3

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  Da'Vine Joy Randolph

  Golden, Lost City of D

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  Carrie Preston

  Space Oddity, Doubt

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  Tate Donovan

  What Is Life Worth, Respect

Crew Behind the Film

The The Holdovers behind-the-scenes crew and production team.

The film's director Alexander Payne last directed Downsizing and Nebraska. The film's writer David Hemingson last wrote Contractors.

Director

Alexander Payne

Screenwriter

David Hemingson

Producer

Mark Johnson

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