The Holdovers
Discomfort and joy.
Directed by Alexander Payne
Produced by Miramax, Gran Via Productions
A tender, melancholic character study about three isolated people finding unexpected warmth and meaning in each other during a lonely winter.
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.
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