The Holdovers
Dir: Alexander PayneCast: Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Dominic Sessa
133mins 2023 US Certificate: 15 English
The Holdovers
Presented by KINO Collective for Christmas 2025
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.
'Payne has gifted us a film intended to be watched every year. It feels like finding an unwatched classic under the tree on Christmas morning' - Lillian Crawford, Little White Lies
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