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This comedy shares the family‑centric, bittersweet tone of 'The Holdovers' with its focus on holiday dynamics and personal reflection, making it a thematically resonant choice.
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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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Why It’s Relevant
This comedy shares the family‑centric, bittersweet tone of 'The Holdovers' with its focus on holiday dynamics and personal reflection, making it a thematically resonant choice.