The Holdovers

The Holdovers

2DCSU
Director:Alexander Payne
Cast:Paul Giamatti, Dominic Sessa, Joy Randolph Da´Vine
Premiere:22. February 2024
Length:133 minutes
Genre:Comedy, Drama

Director: Alexander Payne  •  Cast: Paul Giamatti, Dominic Sessa, Joy Randolph Da´Vine

Three people who normally wouldn't last a minute next to each other have to spend the entire Christmas holiday together. But sometimes it only takes getting to know each other better for something special to be born. Oscar-winning Alexander Payne (Sideways) has made an extraordinary film about the birth of an unexpected friendship.

Professor Hunham (Paul Giamatti) is a man no normal student would want as a teacher. He's an elderly, lonely curmudgeon who knows the world of ancient literature better than he does today, and deeply despises anyone who doesn't share his worldview. Young Angus (Dominic Sessa) is a student no normal professor would want in his class. A magnet for trouble, a rebel without a cause, a destroyer and disrupter of school rules. The two are left on a college campus over Christmas break because neither has anywhere to go. The teacher is alone and the student doesn't fit into his parents' holiday plans. Rounding out the "holy" trinity is the school cook, Mary, who is not in the mood for Christmas because she has just learned that her son was killed in the Vietnam War. From the start, the hope of these three lonely souls finding their way to each other is quite slim, but miracles do happen and sometimes all it takes is a little goodwill to see that people can actually be different than they first appear.

Length: 133 min

Year: 2023
Local premiere date: 22. February 2024

Country of origin:

  • United states of America

Director: Alexander Payne  •  Cast: Paul Giamatti, Dominic Sessa, Joy Randolph Da´Vine

Three people who normally wouldn't last a minute next to each other have to spend the entire Christmas holiday together. But sometimes it only takes getting to know each other better for something special to be born. Oscar-winning Alexander Payne (Sideways) has made an extraordinary film about the birth of an unexpected friendship.

Professor Hunham (Paul Giamatti) is a man no normal student would want as a teacher. He's an elderly, lonely curmudgeon who knows the world of ancient literature better than he does today, and deeply despises anyone who doesn't share his worldview. Young Angus (Dominic Sessa) is a student no normal professor would want in his class. A magnet for trouble, a rebel without a cause, a destroyer and disrupter of school rules. The two are left on a college campus over Christmas break because neither has anywhere to go. The teacher is alone and the student doesn't fit into his parents' holiday plans. Rounding out the "holy" trinity is the school cook, Mary, who is not in the mood for Christmas because she has just learned that her son was killed in the Vietnam War. From the start, the hope of these three lonely souls finding their way to each other is quite slim, but miracles do happen and sometimes all it takes is a little goodwill to see that people can actually be different than they first appear.

Year: 2023
Local premiere date: 22. February 2024

Country of origin:

  • United states of America