The Holdovers Trailer. Paul Giamatti, Da’Vine Joy Randolph Star in Alexander Payne's Dramedy

Focus Features the official trailer for Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers, the comedy film starring Paul Giamatti as a disliked teacher at a prep school, Da’Vine Joy Randolph as the school’s head cook, and Dominic Sessa as a smart but troublemaking student.

Release Date

The Holdovers opens in select theaters in NY and LA on October 27th, in limited release on November 3rd and in theaters nationwide on November 10th.

Synopsis

From acclaimed director Alexander Payne, the film 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).