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The Holdovers
Comedy, Drama
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.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy character-driven dramedies about wounded outsiders finding reluctant companionship through sharp dialogue and humane observation.
- Tone
- melancholic, warm, bittersweet
- Payoff
- catharsis, comfort
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- grief, loneliness, belonging, mentorship, class
- Setting
- early 1970s, snowbound New England boarding school
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