Montclair Film Festival | Fiction Centerpiece: THE HOLDOVERS
Montclair Film Festival | Fiction Centerpiece: THE HOLDOVERS
10/22/23
About Montclair Film Festival | Fiction Centerpiece: THE HOLDOVERS
From acclaimed director Alexander Payne, THE HOLDOVERS follows a curmudgeonly instructor (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). Featuring a brilliant performance from the great Paul Giamatti, THE HOLDOVERS is a brilliant comedy that is destined to become a holiday classic, a film that warmly recalls sensibilities of the cinema of the 1970’s while retaining a delightful feeling of contemporary resonance.
