The Holdovers

In 1970, at the Brandon boarding school, Professor of Ancient History Paul Hunham is loathed by his students, by the other teachers and by the headmaster. He spends his life reading books alone in his apartment at Brandon. During the Christmas holidays, the headmaster Dr. Hardy Woodrup assigns Hunham to stay at Brandon taking care of four students that failed the tests or have no family available in the period. Together with Hunham, stay the manager of the cooks Mary Lamb, who grieves the loss of her son in the Vietnam War, and the troubled student Angus Tully, since his divorced mother recently remarried and wants to spend the period traveling in honeymoon with her new wealthy husband. Near Christmas, the four other students are released and Hunham, Mary and Tully have to stay together, and they learn more about each other's life.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil