Competition: Win a digital copy of The Holdovers

The Upcoming has five digital copies of The Holdovers to give away.

Paul Giamatti and Alexander Payne join forces once again in Focus Features’ latest release, The Holdovers, which will be available exclusively to rent or buy on digital platforms on 19^th February 2024, from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. One of the best-reviewed films of the year with an impressive 97% Rotten Tomatoes score, The Holdovers has garnered five Oscar nominations alongside two BAFTA and Golden Globe wins to date.

The immensely touching film marks the reunion between acclaimed Academy Award-winning and BAFTA-nominated director Alexander Payne (Election, Sideways, The Descendants) and his Sideways actor and Oscar and BAFTA-nominee Paul Giamatti (Billions). Written by BAFTA and Oscar-nominee David Hemingson (Kitchen Confidential), the film features an extraordinary ensemble cast that includes Oscar-nominee and BAFTA-winner Da’Vine Joy Randolph (Dolemite Is My Name, Only Murders in the Building) and Dominic Sessa in his BAFTA-nominated feature film debut.

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).

For a chance to win a digital copy of The Holdovers take a minute to answer the question below, follow our Instagram account here and send your answer to competitions@theupcoming.co.uk together with your full name, address, mobile number and Instagram handle by Friday 29^th March 2024 at 11.59pm. We will cross check your name in the list of Instagram followers.

What film did Alexander Payne and Paul Giamatti previously work together on? Click here to send the answer by email

a) Sideways
b) Election
c) The Descendants

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Terms & conditions:

• Closing date is Friday 29^th March 2024 at 11.59pm.
• This promotion is open to UK residents only.
• The prize is 1 x digital copy of The Holdovers.
• Five winners will be chosen and contacted on Saturday 30^th March 2024 at 12.00pm.
• The editor’s decision is final and binding on the entrants. No correspondence will be entered into.
• Your name, address and mobile number will be used exclusively in connection with the competition according to our privacy policy.