The Holdovers (2023)

10/27/2023 (US) • 2h 13m

Comedy, Drama

Discomfort and joy.

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.

Top Billed Cast

Paul Giamatti

Paul Hunham

Dominic Sessa

Angus Tully

Carrie Preston

Miss Lydia Crane

Brady Hepner

Teddy Kountze

Ian Dolley

Alex Ollerman

Jim Kaplan

Ye-Joon Park

Michael Provost

Jason Smith

Andrew Garman

Dr. Hardy Woodrup


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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$13,000,000.00

Revenue

$42,513,270.00

Keywords

vietnam war

winter

boarding school

holiday

boston, massachusetts

1970s

alcoholism

grief

misfit

mental illness

teacher student relationship

new england

nostalgic

boys' boarding school

christmas

winter break

troubled youth

loss of son

playful

intimate

christmas time

cook

sentimental

hilarious

compassionate

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