Paul Giamatti And Da’Vine Joy Randolph Star In Trailer For THE HOLDOVERS

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).

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From this first trailer, this film looks delightful, the cast spot-on and the story will pull at your heart-strings.

Da’Vine Joy Randolph is best known for her work in Dolemite Is My Name (2019) as Lady Reed and The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2020). She first gained recognition as Oda Mae Brown in the Broadway production of Ghost: The Musical (2012) for which she received a Tony Award nomination for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical.

Giamatti and Payne worked together previously on SIDEWAYS (2004) for which Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Focus Features will release THE HOLDOVERS In select NY & LA theaters on October 27th, In Limited Release on November 3rd and in Theaters Nationwide on November 10th.