The Holdovers

Golden Globe-winning performances from Paul Giamatti and Da’Vine Joy Randolph illuminate Alexander Payne’s coming-of-age comedy-drama.

  • Director

    Alexander Payne

  • With

    Paul Giamatti, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Dominic Sessa

  • USA 2023. 133min

  • Digital 4K

  • Certificate

    15

  • A Universal Pictures release

When the winter break arrives in December 1970, Paul Hunham, a teacher at a prestigious New England boarding school, is forced to remain on campus to babysit a ragtag group of students who have nowhere else to go. Twenty years after Sideways, Alexander Payne reunites with Paul Giamatti for this perfect, bittersweet coming of age comedy-drama. Giamatti is delightful as the curmudgeonly Professor Hunham, while Da’Vine Joy Randolph steals scenes and hearts as the school’s stoic Head Cook, Mary. Brilliantly written and beautifully shot, Payne delivers a magnificently rich 1970s time capsule, a nostalgic, warm embrace of a film, and undoubtedly a future festive classic.

Content warning: Contains flashing images.

Audio Description available at all screenings and the screenings on Thu 25 Jan 17:45 Studio and Sun 28 Jan 12:40 Studio will be presented with Subtitles including descriptions of non-dialogue audio.