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The Holdovers Miramax, Gran Via Productions Focus Features Release date October 27, 2023  My Rating  8/10 #whatonwhatsgood Fan Club Rating   82% Description 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 the holiday 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). Running time 133 minutes Directed by Alexander Payne Written by David Hemingson Produced by Mark Johnson, Bill Block and David Hemingson Starring Paul Giamatti as Paul Hunham Dominic Sessa as Angus Da'Vine Joy Randolph as Mary Carrie Preston as Lydia Crane Cinematography Eigil Bryld Edited by Kevin Tent Music by Mark Orton (l-r.) Director Alexander Payne...