The Holdovers Trailer15A133 min
Director: Alexander Payne
Starring:Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Paul Giamatti, Carrie Preston, Dominic Sessa
Released:Tue 23 Dec 2025
Synopsis
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).