Films / The Holdovers
Focus Features · 2023
The Holdovers
- Director
- Alexander Payne
- Cast
- Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Dominic Sessa
- Country
- United States
- Trailer
- Focus Features
A classics teacher, a cook, and one student are left on a New England campus through Christmas 1970. Payne shoots it like a film that could have been released then, down to the studio card. Paul Giamatti’s Hunham is cruel in the classroom and lost once the term ends. Da'Vine Joy Randolph plays Mary as a person with a grief the school has already filed. The Focus trailer promises a holiday picture. The days in it are longer than that.