The Holdovers (2023)
Top cast
Director
TMDB profile →
Play the episode
Overview
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.
Show notes
jump ↓FIRST 29:15 are a spoiler-free review with our See It/Skip It verdict AFTER 29:15 it's a full spoiler review We're back again and this time we're giving the period character study The Holdovers, the See It or Skip It treatment. Is Paul Giamatti Best Actor material? Did this film borrow from other educational-based film…
Read full show notes
FIRST 29:15 are a spoiler-free review with our See It/Skip It verdict
AFTER 29:15 it's a full spoiler review
We're back again and this time we're giving the period character study The Holdovers, the See It or Skip It treatment. Is Paul Giamatti Best Actor material? Did this film borrow from other educational-based films? Does the film ignore its own presented growth in favour of a tighter plot? How does The Holdovers hold up against the other films in the Oscar race? We'll answer all these questions on The Holdovers and then we tell you whether you should SEE IT or SKIP IT.