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Director Alexander Payne. The Holdovers is the second collaboration between director Alexander Payne and actor Paul Giamatti after Sideways (2004). Payne conceived it after watching Marcel Pagnol's 1935 film Merlusse, [5] and contacted screenwriter David Hemingson, whose boarding-school television pilot he had read. [6]
From left, director Alexander Payne and actor Paul Giamatti after wrapping a scene for "The Holdovers" shot on the Worcester Common Feb. 26, 2022.
The Holdovers is a 2023 comedy drama film directed by Alexander Payne and written by David Hemingson.Set over the 1970 Christmas holiday at a New England boarding school, the film stars Paul Giamatti as cantankerous teacher Paul Hunham, Da'Vine Joy Randolph as Mary Lamb, the school's cook, and Dominic Sessa in his film debut as troubled student Angus Tully.
He was later contacted by director Alexander Payne, who wanted his next film to be set in a prep school environment. Hemingson adapted the pilot script into the screenplay for Payne's 2023 film The Holdovers. [4]
The Holdovers director Alexander Payne with actors Paul Giamatti and Da’Vine Joy Randolph on the set of the film, in theaters now. Seacia Pavao.
In February 2021, actor Giamatti and director Alexander Payne reunited, since collaborating on the 2004 film "Sideways," to start filming "The Holdovers" in the New England area.
Alexander Payne is an American writer, director and producer known for the films About Schmidt (2002), Sideways (2004), The Descendants (2011), Nebraska (2013), and The Holdovers (2023).
At Barton Academy, the fictional all-male enclave in director Alexander Payne’s engaging grey-skies comedy “The Holdovers,” there are stuffy, imperious, demanding professors ― and then ...