There's a double-layered sense of self-reflective nostalgia baked into Alexander Payne's misfit holiday movie "The Holdovers." Set in 1970, there's nostalgia for the time period, which is textured and ...
Dominic Sessa shot to fame with his breakout role in the Oscar-nominated film “The Holdovers,” set over Christmas break at a New England boarding school. Now the young New Jersey actor has been cast ...
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The Holdovers: Directed by Alexander Payne. With Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Dominic Sessa, Carrie Preston. In 1970, a curmudgeonly history teacher at a New England boarding school remains on campus during Christmas break to supervise held over students, and ends up forming an unlikely bond with a brainy but damaged troublemaker.
The Holdovers is a strong and warm-hearted piece that gives actors roles with powerful lines, without any reliance on flashy editing and being overwhelmed by special effects. The story is simple three people get stuck for the Christmas holidays in a boarding school. It's cold, lonely, and boring for the parties involved.
From acclaimed director Alexander Payne, THE HOLDOVERS follows a curmudgeonly instructor (Paul Giamatti) at a New England prep school who 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 (newcomer Dominic Sessa) -- and with the school's head cook ...
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