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The Holdovers review: It's an A+ for Paul Giamatti's trio of boarding school misfits, writes BRIAN VINER
BRIAN VINER: The Holdovers is set in an all-boys boarding school in New England where crusty, irascible, world-weary classics teacher Paul Hunham has spent his entire career.
It's December 1970 and unmarried, unloved Mr Hunham is preparing for the holidays when the headmaster, who cordially loathes him, gives him the unenviable job of looking after the 'holdovers', the boys who for whatever reason can't get home for Christmas. The Holdovers is set in an all-boys boarding school in New England where crusty, irascible, world-weary classics teacher Paul Hunham has spent his entire career One of them is a bright but rebellious lad called Angus (superbly played by newcomer Dominic Sessa), who ends up as the only holdover, resentfully holed up in a big, otherwise empty building in the strangest of menages-a-trois, with Mr Hunham and the African-American school cook, Mary (Da'Vine Joy Randolph, also terrific and also a Golden Globe winner).
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