{"id":21157,"date":"2024-02-05T16:54:19","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T14:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=21157"},"modified":"2024-02-05T16:54:21","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T14:54:21","slug":"the-holdovers-opens-in-cinemas-friday-9-february-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2024\/02\/05\/the-holdovers-opens-in-cinemas-friday-9-february-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Holdovers&#8221; Opens in Cinemas, Friday 9 February 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/title\/2482\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/title\/2482\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">THE HOLDOVERS<\/a><\/strong>, the much lauded film from Academy Award winning director, Alexander Payne, opens in cinemas nationwide this Friday, 9 February 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The film has won 2 <strong>Golden Globe<\/strong> Awards for Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture \u2013 Musical or Comedy (Paul Giamatti) and Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture (Da\u2019Vine Joy Randolph) plus a <strong>Golden Globe nomination<\/strong> for Best Motion Picture \u2013 Musical or Comedy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has been nominated for 5 <strong>Academy Awards<\/strong> including Best Picture, Best Actor (Paul Giamatti), Best Supporting Actress (Da\u2019Vine Joy Randolph), Best Original Screenplay and Best Film Editing, as well as 7 <strong>BAFTA <\/strong>nominations including Best Film, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"THE HOLDOVERS | Official Trailer\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RLCa6SwrKSU?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>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The film reunites SIDEWAYS director, <em>Alexander Payne<\/em> and <em>Paul Giamatti<\/em> in a holiday story of three lonely, shipwrecked people at a New England boarding school over winter break in 1970.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Giamatti <\/em>stars as Paul Hunham, an adjunct professor of ancient history \u2013 universally disliked by students and faculty \u2013 who gets stuck holding over at Barton Academy with the kids who can\u2019t go home for the holidays. It\u2019s his punishment and penance for failing a high-profile student whose father recently endowed the school\u2019s gymnasium. Thanks to a holiday miracle \u2013 in the form of one father\u2019s change of heart \u2013 the motley crew of boys under Hunham\u2019s care is soon whittled down to just one: Angus Tully, played by <em>Dominic Sessa<\/em> in his film debut. Angus is a smart but damaged junior who is trying his best to navigate a host of complicated family dynamics. Also holding over is Mary Lamb, portrayed by <em>Da\u2019Vine Joy Randolph<\/em>, the head cook of the school whose only child Curtis, a recent graduate of Barton, was killed in Vietnam. Still deep in grief, Mary chooses to stay at Barton because it was the last place she was with her son. Left to their own devices in the empty school, this unlikely trio finds adventure, calamity, and finally, some semblance of family.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE HOLDOVERS, the much lauded film from Academy Award winning director, Alexander Payne, opens in cinemas nationwide this Friday, 9 February 2024.\u00a0 The film has won 2 Golden Globe Awards for Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture \u2013 Musical or Comedy (Paul Giamatti) and Best Performance by a Female Actor in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2024\/02\/05\/the-holdovers-opens-in-cinemas-friday-9-february-2024\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;The Holdovers&#8221; Opens in Cinemas, Friday 9 February 2024<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21158,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/TheHoldovers-poster.jpg?fit=450%2C667&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}