![Film For All: The Holdovers [Friday 28 June 2024]](https://finchammemorialhall.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-27-at-13.10.56.png)
With no family and nowhere to go over the Christmas holidays in 1970, unpopular classics teacher Paul Hunham (Giamatti) is stuck at school to supervise Angus, a bright teenager whose bad behaviour always threatens to get him expelled. Joining Paul and Angus is head cook Mary (Oscar-winner Randolph) – an African American woman whose own son was recently lost in Vietnam. These three shipwrecked people form an unlikely Christmas family, sharing comic misadventures during two very snowy weeks in New England.
Watch the trailer here
The Holdovers is a consistently smart, funny movie about people who are easy to root for and like the ones we know. Its greatest accomplishment is not how easy it is to see yourself in Paul, Angus, or Mary. It’s that you will in all three.” Rogerebert.com
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“The star gives an awards-worthy performance in this terrific period piece.” The Telegraph
“Hunham’s hero Marcus Aurelius once wrote, “Give thyself leisure to learn some good thing.” Take his advice and see this film.” Empire
Watch the trailer at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgIyk1tvTd8
