Just go watch "The Holdovers"
before it's too late
After an exhausting 14-hour car ride on Saturday, I convinced my wife that we needed to watch The Holdovers on Sunday before it was too late1.
No, the movie would still be available, but there’s a certain vibe of “dead week”-ness that the movie gets so well.
It was only released last year, but it’s an instant classic, one of those we’ll re-watch it 1x a year, like Home Alone or It’s a Wonderful Life or White Christmas or whatever, but more cynical of course.
It’s the story of a Massachusetts boarding school and the “holdovers” who can’t go home, and have to stay at the school from Christmas until the next semester starts and a makeshift family is made.
It’s Paul Giamatti plus Dominic Sessa who carries the movie in his first movie role, an actual student from one of the schools where the movie was filmed.
It’s set in the 1970s and is filmed like it was the 1970s, it’s funnier than it looks.
Time is running out of course, because you’ll soon forget about spending time with family at Christmas, about the weirdness of this in-between week, of what you did or didn’t do on New Year’s.
Talk soon-
Josh Spilker
I watched it last year, she hadn’t seen it before and we rarely agree on the same movie, but I convinced her.