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The Holdovers(2023)
Released
2023 · FILM

The Holdovers

A strict teacher forced to supervise a handful of students during Christmas break must confront his own bitterness and protect them from escalating dangers when a mysterious threat turns the isolated boarding school into a deadly battlefield.

“Discomfort and joy.”

Directed by
Alexander Payne, Tim Ladue
Written by
David Hemingson
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
133 min
ComedyDrama

Synopsis

A gruff instructor at a New England preparatory school is required to stay on campus during the Christmas break to supervise a small group of students who have no place to go. Over time, he develops an unexpected connection with one of the students—a troubled, intelligent young person—and with the school’s head cook, who has recently lost a son in the Vietnam War.

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The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 284+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Kevin TentShot by Eigil BryldScored by Mark OrtonDesigned by Ryan Warren SmithSound by Patrick Cyccone JrCostumes by Wendy ChuckStunts by Amy GreeneVFX by Andy Chang

Box Office

2023 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 3.3× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$42.5M

Budget$13.0M
Worldwide gross$42.5M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $20.4M — 48% of worldwide · International: $22.2M (52%)

Opening weekend: $211K — 1% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $278K — 1% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 6 theaters

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Also known as

  • Los que se quedanes
  • Winter Breakfr
  • (Alternative Title)Winter Break
Release dates around the world5 countries · show
  • United StatesAug 31, 2023
  • CanadaSep 10, 2023
  • South KoreaOct 7, 2023
  • United KingdomOct 11, 2023
  • FranceOct 15, 2023

Production & Distribution

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MiramaxGran Via ProductionsLive Free or Die Films

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