THE HOLDOVERS

Director: Alexander Payne

Producer(s): Mark Johnson, Bill Block, David Hemingson

Cast: Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Dominic Sessa

A curmudgeonly instructor (Paul Giamatti) at a New England prep school 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 (Dominic Sessa) -- and with the school’s head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam (Da’Vine Joy Randolph).