Film: The Holdovers   

(USA – 2023 – 133 mins – Cert-15)

Director:      Alexander Payne

Cast:            Paul Giametti, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Dominic Sessa.

A curmudgeonly instructor at New England school remains on Campus

during Christmas break. He soon forms an unlikely bond with brainy but

damaged troublemaker, and with the school’s cook, a woman who just lost

a son in Vietnam. These three very different shipwrecked people form an

unlikely Christmas family sharing comic misadventures during two very

snowy weeks in New England. 

2024 Oscar winner for best actress in a supporting role

4 other Oscar nominations including best picture.