In Focus: Dir. Alexander Payne & Paul Giamatti on Da’Vine Joy Randolph

Alexander Payne & Paul Giamatti praise Da’Vine Joy Randolph’s nuanced acting skills in THE HOLDOVERS, Now Playing in Theaters Everywhere.

From acclaimed director Alexander Payne, THE HOLDOVERS follows a curmudgeonly instructor (Paul 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. Eventually he forms an unlikely bond with one of them -- a damaged, brainy troublemaker (newcomer Dominic Sessa) -- and with the school’s head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam (Da’Vine Joy Randolph).