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The Holdovers (2023)
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A teacher, a pupil and a bereaved cook are stranded at school over Christmas, with no convincing reason to enjoy each other's company. Shared meals and reluctant excursions gradually give them something more useful than agreement: an understanding of what each person is carrying. Their small, temporary household earns its tenderness through awkward attention. The grief remains, which makes the companionship feel less manufactured.
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About The Holdovers
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.