Focus Features has dropped The Holdovers trailer for the upcoming comedy drama, which hails from Election filmmaker Alexander Payne.
The film is scheduled to premiere in select theaters on October 27, followed by its wide release on November 10.
The video features Paul Giamatti as a disliked high school teacher who’s forced to spend the holidays with a group of students who doesn’t have a place to go. He unexpectedly finds himself bonding with the school troublemaker and the head cook.
“It follows a curmudgeonly instructor (Giamatti) at a New England prep school who is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go,” reads the synopsis. “Eventually he forms an unlikely bond with one of them — a damaged, brainy troublemaker (Sessa) — and with the school’s head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam (Randolph).”
The film is executive produced by Andrew Golov, Thom Zadra, and Chris Stinson, with Mark Johnson, Bill Block, and Hemingson set as producers.
