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The Holdovers Screenwriter Predicts a Renaissance of Humanist Films
“I’m a big believer in no tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.”
David Hemingson, a TV writer and producer who has credits on broadcast projects like Kitchen Confidential and Whiskey Cavalier, wrote the film’s script after Alexander Payne heard about his pilot based on his time growing up at Watkinson School in Connecticut. For much of the run-time, only four characters, a curmudgeonly teacher (Giamatti), a grieving cook (Randolph), a troubled teenager (Dominic Sessa), and an affable janitor (Naheem Garcia), occupy the snowy frame. If I can resurrect the feelings I had, the sense of alienation, illness, and calmness that I received from the people I love, in the context of the school that I went to, then something special would happen in the script.
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