The Holdovers

Alexander Payne · 2023 CE · Film · Modern / American · Contemporary

Christmas 1970 empties a New England boarding school and leaves a disliked classics master minding the boys with nowhere to go, which by the second week means one furious teenager and the head cook, whose son was killed in Vietnam. Payne shoots on the grain, zooms and pacing of the American pictures the story is set among, down to a period studio logo. David Hemingson's original screenplay puts him back among the small wounded people of Sideways, and the performances carried the 2023 awards season.

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