Payne's low-key charmer nods to 1970s filmmaking, but it touches on timeless themes
Christmas is coming early for cinephiles this year. The Holdovers, the long-awaited reteaming of classic comedy duo Paul Giamatti and Alexander Payne, rolls out in theaters nationwide on November 10, following a limited release at the end of October. Payne’s first starring vehicle for Paul Giamatti since 2004’s Sideways is a throwback dramedy straight out of the 1970s.
” As a born-and-bred Massachusettsan, screenwriter David Hemingson was “amazed at how spot on, how incredibly consistent and how historically accurate” the costuming was. “It was this combination of stuff that was very traditional with stuff that would’ve been contemporary at the time,” he added. “That gave a tremendous verisimilitude to the costumes. Like, the fact that people were dressing like they would’ve actually dressed in the truest sense of the word.
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