»Giamatti’s performance even outclasses the one he gave in Sideways. Nostalgic, funny, moving and thought-provoking, this may well qualify, in a career not short of outstanding achievements, as its director’s finest and most immersive film yet.«
– Sight and Sound
The Holdovers The Holdovers
The Holdovers reunites Sideways’ Alexander Payne and Paul Giamatti in a holiday story of three lonely, shipwrecked people at a New England boarding school during the winter break in 1970. Golden Globe for Giamatti and an Oscar for Joy Randolph.
cast Paul Giamatti, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Dominic Sessa
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