The Holdovers (2023)
Date: 17 May 2024Time: 7.45pm (doors open at 7.00pm)
Tickets: £7
Duration: 133 minutes
Rating: 15 (language, some drug use, brief sexual material)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Actors include: Paul Giamatti, Da’Vine Joy Randolph
Director: Alexander Payne
Language: English
With no family and nowhere to go over the Christmas holidays in 1970, unpopular classics teacher Paul Hunham (Paul 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 Da’Vine Joy 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.
“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 see (yourself) in all three.” - Rogerebert.com
“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.”
Venue
The Cross Barn
Palace Gate Farm
Odiham
Hampshire
RG29 1JX
Palace Gate Farm
Odiham
Hampshire
RG29 1JX