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The Holdovers. The Holdovers is a 2023 American Christmas comedy drama film directed by Alexander Payne and written by David Hemingson. Set in 1970, the film stars Paul Giamatti as a strict classics teacher at a New England boarding school who is forced to chaperone a handful of students with nowhere to go on the Christmas break.
The year is 1970, but “The Holdovers” is not your typical period movie. Instead, it feels as if Payne (a heroic film preservation advocate) unearthed this vintage artifact from the era in ...
4/5 Alexander Payne’s wistful Christmas tale revolves around a trio of lost souls who find one another over the festive break, and is bolstered by phenomenal performances from Da’Vine Joy ...
The Holdovers is a 2023 comedy drama film directed by Alexander Payne and written by David Hemingson.Set over the 1970 Christmas holiday at a New England boarding school, the film stars Paul Giamatti as cantankerous teacher Paul Hunham, Da'Vine Joy Randolph as Mary Lamb, the school's cook, and Dominic Sessa in his film debut as troubled student Angus Tully.
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 80% of 165 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.8/10. The website's consensus reads: "Thanks largely to a strong cast that leans into the story's humorous side, Wicked Little Letters is a diverting comedy even if the mystery at its core isn't particularly clever."
We’ve all seen our share of stories about inspirational teachers. “The Holdovers” is dedicated to the opposite sort: a hard-ass named Paul Hunham whom everyone hates. The feeling is mutual ...
Living is a 2022 British historical drama film directed by Oliver Hermanus. Its screenplay by Kazuo Ishiguro was adapted from the 1952 Akira Kurosawa film Ikiru. Set in 1953 London, it stars Bill Nighy as a bureaucrat in the public works department who learns he has a fatal illness. Living had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on ...
Nov. 17—At Barton Academy, the fictional all-male enclave in director Alexander Payne's engaging gray-skies comedy "The Holdovers," there are stuffy, imperious, demanding professors" and then ...