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Last modified: Oct. 5, 2023

The Holdovers

Release Date: Friday, October 27, 2023 NYC/LA Friday, November 10, 2023 Theaters

Director: Alexander Payne

Starring: Paul Giamatti Da'Vine Joy Randolph Carrie Preston Tate Donovan

R Comedy 2 hrs, 13 m

  • 4.7 / 5
81% 19%

Plot

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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.
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Top Cast

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Crew Behind the Film

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

Screenwriter
Producer
Mark Johnson

Production Details

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Production

Changed the movie production status to Production. Filming now in New England

Development

Changed the movie production status to Development. The movie is likely in scripting, budgeting, or stuck in "development hell."

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Changed the movie production status to Pre-Production. Starts filming January 2022.

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Additional Information

Parent Rating
R Restricted for language, some drug use and brief sexual material
Runtime
2 hrs, 13 m
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Language
English

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Release Dates

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The Holdovers was released in New York / Los Angeles on Friday, October 27, 2023. There were 17 other movies released on the same date, including Inspector Sun, Five Nights at Freddy's and Freelance.

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