"The Holdovers" is an exceptional film. It's about life and how each of us struggle with our own little demons.
Paul Giamatti is his usual brilliant self here as the private high school history teacher Paul Hunham who has to watch a group of students held over for Christmas break in 1969. In particular he gets to know Angus Tully who is his class nemesis; a young man who has things to sort out and who Mr. Hunham ultimately gets to help out.
There is also the school cook Mary Lamb who has lost her young son to the war in Vietnam. She adds gravitas to this film as her personal pain grounds everyone in realizing that life can be fleeting. The actress Da'Vine Joy Randolph won the Oscar for her performance as Mary.
This is the story of a ragtag bunch of wounded souls and one of the finest films I have seen in recent memory.
On Netflix.
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