WATCH PARTY: The Holdovers (2023) directed by Alexander Payne @ Pretlow Library

If you're still in town on December 23, join us for a wry, poignant, and hilarious new Christmas classic, Alexander Payne's The Holdovers (2023) starring Paul Giammatti, Dominic Sessa, and Da'Vine Joy Randolph!

We'll be in Meeting Room 1 to the right of the entrance.

Synopsis
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).

"In Payne’s work, one individual’s foibles and failings can open another’s perception; his humans lead not by example, but through their flaws. This is one of the director’s greatest films." - New York Magazine

"The Holdovers is a warm hug of a movie and the closest thing we've had to a new holiday classic in quite some time." - Entertainment Weekly