“Critic’s Pick! Alexander Payne’s jaunt to the past is crackling with pungent life.”
—The New York Times

“Belly laughs abound, but it’s the deep care for its characters that makes THE HOLDOVERS really sing.”
—The Atlantic

“In Payne’s work, one individual’s foibles and failings can open another’s perception; his humans lead not by example, but through their flaws. This is one of the director’s greatest films.”
—Vulture

From acclaimed director Alexander Payne (ELECTION), THE HOLDOVERS follows a curmudgeonly instructor (SIDEWAYS’ 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, who has just lost a son in Vietnam (Da’Vine Joy Randolph of Only Murders in the Building fame).