Director Alexander Payne made headlines when he said Hollywood needs to be making more mid-budget "adult dramas" for audiences that may not be as interested in the varying action and sci-fi franchises that dominate the slate of new movies these days. That is something David Hemingson agrees with, which is appropriate as the pair teamed up on The Holdovers, currently playing in select US theaters and expanding nationwide on November 10.
The Holdovers is a dramedy that centers on a curmudgeonly professor at a New England boarding school in the 1970s that is stuck babysitting a group of students that have nowhere to go for the winter break. However, he forms an unlikely bond with one of the students and the school's head cook. The movie stars Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph and newcomer Dominic Sessa and is, in my opinion, one of the best movies of the year (find out why in my The Holdovers review).
