The Holdovers 2024 Preview. “the holdovers” is an excellent return to form for director alexander payne after his last feature, “downsizing”, an uneven comedy from 2017. The holdovers is a consistently smart, funny movie about people who are easy to root for and like the ones we know.
The holdovers reunites sideways alums paul giamatti and director alexander payne in a christmas story of three lonely, shipwrecked people at a new england boarding school over a very snowy holiday break in 1970. The holdovers | official trailer.