First Trailer for Alexander Payne’s THE HOLDOVERS, Starring Paul Giamatti

First look at Payne's latest comic drama.

Director Alexander Payne and actor Paul Giamatti struck black comic gold with 2004's Sideways. They've reunited for The Holdovers, which sees Giamatti play a curmudgeonly (what else?) lecturer at a prep school who is forced to look after a group of students over the Christmas holidays. This sees him bond with a troubled student (Dominic Sessa) and the school cook (Da'Vine Joy Randolph). The film is written by David Hemingson.

The Holdovers doesn't hit UK/ROI cinemas until next January but you can watch the first trailer below.

The official synopsis reads:

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).