Peacock Will Exclusively Stream Focus Features’ “The Holdovers” Beginning December 29 [VIDEO]

Focus Features’ THE HOLDOVERS, which reunites Sideways’ Alexander Payne and Paul Giamatti in a holiday story of three lonely, shipwrecked people at a New England boarding school over winter break in 1970, streams exclusively on Peacock December 29.

From acclaimed director Alexander Payne, THE HOLDOVERS follows a curmudgeonly instructor (Paul Giamatti) at a New England prep school who 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 (newcomer Dominic Sessa) – and with the school’s head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam (Da’Vine Joy Randolph).

Directed by: Alexander Payne

Written by: David Hemingson

Produced by: Mark Johnson, Bill Block, David Hemingson

Executive Producers: Andrew Golov, Thom Zadra, Chris Stinson, Tom Williams

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

	The Holdovers
	Release: 2023-10-27Genre: ComedyDuration: 133 minsBudget: $ 13,000,000
	Overview A curmudgeonly instructor 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 — and with the school’s head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.