{"id":13817,"date":"2023-10-13T13:24:04","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T13:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/the-holdovers-paul-giamatti-and-alexander-payne-reunite-after-years\/"},"modified":"2023-10-13T13:24:04","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T13:24:04","slug":"the-holdovers-paul-giamatti-and-alexander-payne-reunite-after-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/the-holdovers-paul-giamatti-and-alexander-payne-reunite-after-years\/","title":{"rendered":"The Holdovers: Paul Giamatti and Alexander Payne reunite after years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Actor Paul Giamatti and filmmaker Alexander Payne reunite after almost 20 years for \u201cThe Holdovers\u201d, a Christmas-time tale of a trio of unlikely companions that premiered at the London Film Festival on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Paul Giamatti, who appeared in Payne\u2019s 2004 Oscar-winning movie \u201cSideways\u201d, plays Paul Hunham, a teacher of ancient history at a high-status New England boarding school for boys. Much to his dismay, the cranky, unpopular academic is tasked with looking after \u201cthe holdovers\u201d, a handful of students with nowhere to go, over the 1970 winter break.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe title=\"THE HOLDOVERS - Official Trailer [HD] - In Select Theaters October 27, Everywhere November 10\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AhKLpJmHhIg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>The only other adult on the empty, closed-off campus is the academy\u2019s head cook, Mary (Da\u2019Vine Joy Randolph), who has recently lost her son in Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p>After getting off to a disastrous start, the two-week break turns into an invigorating experience for Hunham, Mary and troubled student Angus Tully (Dominic Sessa).<\/p>\n<p>The role of Hunham in the comedy-drama was created specifically for Giamatti.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been saying this for 20 years since \u2018Sideways\u2019, he can make even bad dialogue work, so give him good dialogue and it\u2019s even better,\u201d Payne, 62, said of Giamatti, who did not attend the London premiere due to the actors\u2019 strike.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Holdovers\u201d was written by David Hemingson, who thought he was being prank-called when Payne contacted him \u201cout of the blue\u201d after reading a pilot script about his time at a prep school.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is my childhood, kind of pushed through the sieve of slightly different circumstances. It\u2019s the most personal thing I\u2019ve ever done,\u201d said Hemingson.<\/p>\n<p>Payne, whose previous films include \u201cDownsizing,\u201d \u201cThe Descendants\u201d and \u201cElection,\u201d said he wanted to tell an entertaining story that looks and feels like a movie made in 1970.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like making comedies, but comedies that hopefully make you think a little bit, too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Holdovers\u201d is out in U.S. cinemas this November and will be released globally in early 2024.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"rocketlazyloadscript\">\n  window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n    FB.init({\n      appId      : '161345524510473',\n      cookie     : true,\n      xfbml      : true,\n      version    : 'v3.0'\n    });\n    FB.AppEvents.logPageView();   \n  };\n  (function(d, s, id){\n     var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n     if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n     js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n     js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n     fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n   }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Paul Giamatti and filmmaker Alexander Payne reunite after almost 20 years for \u201cThe Holdovers\u201d, a Christmas-time tale of a trio of unlikely companions that premiered at the London Film Festival on Wednesday. Paul Giamatti, who appeared in Payne\u2019s 2004 Oscar-winning movie \u201cSideways\u201d, plays Paul Hunham, a teacher of ancient history at a high-status New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/arynews.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/The-holdovers.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}