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Title: THE HOLDOVERS Year: 2023 Rating: **
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Director Alexander Payne is passive/aggressive when it comes to his previous SIDEWAYS star Paul Giamatti's character Paul Hunham, a stuffy, curmudgeon-like professor at an all-boys boarding school, who in one scene angrily lectures his students while glibly handing-out failing grades, and the next idealistically defends the institution's grieving African-American cook from one of a small-handful of HOLDOVER teens, unable to go home for Christmas and having to spend a melancholy "detention" (like THE BREAKFAST CLUB meets DEAD POET'S SOCIETY meets 1972's CHILD'S PLAY) stuck in an otherwise empty campus...
Ironically, that particular scolded brat winds up getting a last-minute Christmas vacation reprieve... a shame since he had the kind of antagonistic attitude that would inevitably transition by the end...
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Paul Giamatti in THE HOLDOVERS
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But here the sole abandoned youngster is Dominic Sessa as Angus Tully, one of those semi-complicated blunt/sassy meets dull/depressed loner types, and who's almost impossible to either root for or relate with...
And sadly, with uneven ingredients stuffed into a bland counter-culture-era drama (probably set in 1970 so the kids aren't glued to cell-phones), NEBRASKA and ABOUT SCHMIDT indie-auteur Payne... usually prone to road-movies with a fresh twist around every corner... drives a tired vehicle down a tediously overlong and ultimately dead-end street.
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| Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Carrie Preston, Paul Giamatti & Darby Lee-Stack in The Holdovers |
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| Dominic Sessa and Jim Kaplan leftover in THE HOLDOVERS |
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| Brady Hepner as the one-dimensional jerk in THE HOLDOVERS |
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| Paul Giamatti and Dominic Sessa in THE HOLDOVERS |
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| Paul Giamatti and Dominic Sessa in THE HOLDOVERS |
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| Paul Giamatti and Dominic Sessa in THE HOLDOVERS |
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| Dustin Hoffman from Little Big Man in THE HOLDOVERS |
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| Gillian Vigman and 80's actor Tate Donovan in THE HOLDOVERS |
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| Retro 1970 Opening in THE HOLDOVERS |
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| Retro 1970 Opening in THE HOLDOVERS |
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| Retro 1970 Opening in THE HOLDOVERS |
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