The Holdovers
The Holdovers
“ Discomfort and joy. ”
CINEMA2023-10-27
DIGITAL2023-11-28
RegionUS
Runtime133 MIN
Media TypeMovie
PRODUCTION COMPANIES
Storyline
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.
DIRECTOR / Director
Alexander Payne
KEYWORDS
vietnam warwinterboarding schoolholidaybostonmassachusetts1970salcoholismgriefmisfitmental illnessteacher student relationshipnew englandboys' boarding schoolchristmaswinter breaktroubled youthloss of sonintimatechristmastimecooksentimental
