A new clip from The Holdovers - the new comedy-drama from Sideways director Alexander Payne - has been released ahead of the Oscar-tipped film's arrival in Irish cinemas in the New Year.
The Holdovers "follows a curmudgeonly instructor (Sideways' Paul Giamatti) at a prestigious American school, who 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 (newcomer Dominic Sessa) - and with the school's head cook (Only Murders in the Building's Da'Vine Joy Randolph), who has just lost a son in Vietnam," the synopsis adds.
Director Payne is a seven-time Oscar nominee and has won twice - both times for Best Adapted Screenplay - for Sideways and The Descendants.
Speaking at the Toronto International Film Festival last month, Payne reserved particular praise for his young star Dominic Sessa, who was recruited at Deerfield Academy, one of the boarding schools in Massachusetts where the film was shot.
Though Sessa was the star of the drama club, "he'd never been in front of a camera", Payne told filmgoers in the post-screening question and answer session.
"To go toe-to-toe, head-to-head with Paul Giamatti in his first-ever film is really something to watch."
The Holdovers opens in Irish cinemas on Friday 19 January 2024.
Additional Reporting: AFP
