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The Holdovers (2023)

Directed by Alexander Payne

Drama | Comedy

Most recently watched by lordofthemovies, CaptainBigTime, AllAboutSteve, sensoria

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.

Rated R | Length 133 minutes

Actors

Paul Giamatti | Dominic Sessa | Da'Vine Joy Randolph | Carrie Preston | Brady Hepner | Ian Dolley | Jim Kaplan | Michael Provost | Andrew Garman | Naheem Garcia | Stephen Thorne | Gillian Vigman | Tate Donovan | Darby Lee-Stack | Bill Mootos | Dustin Tucker | Juanita Pearl | Alexander Cook | Liz Bishop | Cole Tristan Murphy | Will Sussbauer | Carter Shimp | Michael Malvesti | Dakota Lustick | Melissa McMeekin | Jonathan von Mering | Rena Maliszewski | Osmani Rodriguez | Oscar Wahlberg | Dan Aid | Mike Kaz | Kelly AuCoin | Colleen Clinton | Fred Robbins | David J. Curtis | Pamela Jayne Morgan | Davis Robinson | Joe Howell | Peter Krasinski | Greg Chopoorian | Ian Lyons | Kevin Fennessy | Kevin Daigneault | Bhanu Gopal

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Date ViewedDeviceFormatSourceRating
11/20/2023Movie ScreenDigitalTheater8 stars
 

Viewing Notes

second movie in my Massachusetts holiday double feature!

Love the opening credits! Really good movie that was so period perfect it got me nostalgic for that time. Also very funny. Laughed a lot throughout the film.

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