The Holdovers

(2023)

★ 7.6 IMDb · 2,656 votes

Genres: Drama, Comedy

Year: 2023

Runtime: 133 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Александр Пэйн

Cast: Пол Джаматти, Доминик Сесса, Давайн Джой Рэндольф, Кэрри Престон, Brady Hepner, Ian Dolley, Jim Kaplan, Майкл Провост, Andrew Garman, Нахим Гарсиа

Plot

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.

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 15-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)- 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.