The Holdovers
“Discomfort and joy.”
7.6(2,610)R20232h 13mEN
Directed by Alexander Payne
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 warwinterboarding schoolholidayboston, massachusetts1970smelancholyalcoholismgriefmisfitmental illnessteacher student relationship
Budget $13.0MBox office $42.5M
