The Holdovers
Discomfort and joy.
Country
Production
Budget
$13 000 000
Box office
$45 975 193
Director
Actors
Paul Giamatti, Dominic Sessa, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Carrie Preston, Brady Hepner, Ian Dolley, Jim Kaplan, Michael Provost, Andrew Garman, Naheem Garcia
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
David Hemingson
Producer
Mark Johnson, Bill Block, David Hemingson, Andrew Golov, Tom Williams, Thomas Zadra, Thom Zadra
Camera operator
Eigil Bryld
Composer
Artist
Ryan Warren Smith
Audition
Lisa Lobel, Susan Shopmaker
Editing
Kevin Tent, Joshua Gonzales
Whole Team (89)
Whole Team (89)
Short description
A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school 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 — and with the school’s head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.
What's left behind the scenes
- The opening credits contain a humorous copyright notice stating that the film was supposedly shot in 1971.
- The entire film was shot on location – without sets or sound stages.
- Despite the visuals resembling films from the 1970s, the film was shot on a digital "ARRI Alexa Mini" camera, and all the characteristic features of shooting on film (image grain, halos, mechanical vibrations of the film as it passes through the camera gate, etc.) were added during post-production.
- Focus Features acquired the rights to the film for $30 million after a showing to potential buyers at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival. The film wasn't even on the list of films intended for screening, but the deal still became the largest at the festival.
- Many scenes were filmed at the Fairhaven, Massachusetts high school during spring break. Fortunately, a snowstorm hit the town during those days, which pleased the film crew, as the plot involves some events taking place during a snowstorm. Therefore, the snow shown in the film is not artificial, but natural.
- According to Dominic Sessa, the hardest scene to film was the ice skating scene. Sessa used to play hockey, and falling on cue – and in a way that looked natural – turned out to be not easy.
- While filming the scene where his character calls home, Dominic Sessa "messed up" the take because he didn't know how to use a rotary dial phone and had to be shown. Somehow, it didn't occur to anyone on the film's creative team that he had never used such phones before.
- According to Dominic Sessa, the most difficult part for him was filming the skating scene. Sessa used to play hockey, and he found it challenging to fall at the exact moment commanded while making it look natural.
- While filming the scene in which his character calls home, Dominic Sessa ruined a take because he didn't know how to use a rotary phone.
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