The Holdovers

Plot 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.

Director

Alexander Payne

Cast

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  Paul Giamatti

  Paul Hunham

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  Dominic Sessa

  Angus Tully

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  Da'Vine Joy Randolph

  Mary Lamb

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  Carrie Preston

  Miss Lydia Crane

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  Brady Hepner

  Teddy Kountze

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  Ian Dolley

  Alex Ollerman

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  Jim Kaplan

  Ye-Joon Park

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  Michael Provost

  Jason Smith