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.
Editor's Verdict
"The Holdovers is fundamentally a Christmas movie. The entire central conflict and character bonding occurs *because* the characters are trapped together during Christmas break. The setting, plot function, and thematic weight are all strongly anchored to the holiday period, making it a narrative defined by its Yuletide isolation and eventual redemption."
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