The Holdovers
133 min
2023
Published on, 2 months ago
The Holdovers
133 min
2023
Published on, 2 months ago
A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school 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 — and with the school’s head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.
vietnam war
winter
boarding school
holiday
boston, massachusetts
1970s
affectation
alcoholism
grief
misfit
mental illness
teacher student relationship
new england
boys' boarding school
christmas
winter break
troubled youth
loss of son
christmas time
cook
admiring
