{"id":5424,"date":"2023-12-01T09:23:20","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T08:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/?p=5424"},"modified":"2023-12-01T09:23:20","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T08:23:20","slug":"the-holdovers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/the-holdovers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Holdovers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"THE HOLDOVERS - Official Trailer [HD] - In Select Theaters October 27, Everywhere November 10\" width=\"920\" height=\"518\" 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><\/p>\n<p>Beautifully bittersweet, <em>The Holdovers<\/em> marks a satisfying return to form for director Alexander Payne.<\/p>\n<p>The story follows a curmudgeonly instructor (<strong>Paul Giamatti<\/strong>) 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. <\/p>\n<p>Eventually he forms an unlikely bond with one of them &#8212; a damaged, brainy troublemaker (Dominic Sessa) &#8212; and with the school&#8217;s head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam (Da&#8217;Vine Joy Randolph).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Legitimately one of the best Christmas movies ever made. <\/strong>It&#8217;s also the perfect Wes Anderson movie for people who don&#8217;t like Wes Anderson.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cute and touching if not laugh-out-loud hilarious, <em>The Holdovers<\/em> is a thought-provoking dramedy for viewers seeking a dialogue-driven movie with a throwback feel. <\/strong><\/p>\n<h6>Comedy, Drama<br \/>\nUnited States (English)<br \/>\n2h 13min<\/h6>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/holdovers2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"307\" height=\"463\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5425\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beautifully bittersweet, The Holdovers marks a satisfying return to form for director Alexander Payne. The story follows a curmudgeonly instructor&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5425,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/holdovers2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5426,"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5424\/revisions\/5426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}