The Holdovers

22/01/24 09:16

The Holdovers

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Storyline: Nobody likes teacher Paul Hunham (Giamatti) -- not his students, not his fellow faculty,
not the headmaster, who all find his pomposity and rigidity exasperating. With no family and
nowhere to go over Christmas holiday in 1970, Paul remains at school to supervise students
unable to journey home. After a few days, only one student holdover remains -- a trouble-making
18-year-old named Angus, a good student whose bad behavior always threatens to get him
expelled. Joining Paul and Angus is head cook Mary (Randolph)-an African American woman
who caters to sons of privilege and whose own son was recently lost in Vietnam. These three
very different shipwrecked people form an unlikely Christmas family sharing comic
misadventures during two very snowy weeks in New England. The real journey is how they
help one another understand that they are not beholden to their past-they can choose their own futures.

Cast: Paul Giamatti, Dominic Sassa, Da'Vine Joy Randolph

My rating: Excellent

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