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From acclaimed director Alexander Payne, The Holdovers follows a cranky instructor at a New England prep school who 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 .

After a failed suicide attempt, brilliant New York misanthrope Boris Yellnikoff forsakes his posh upper-class existence for meager accommodations in Chinatown. He meets his exact opposite in Melody, a pageant queen from the Deep South who’s long on sweetness but short on smarts. Surprisingly, Boris and Melody marry, but the sparks really fly when Melody’s born-again Christian mother arrives and finds liberation instead of damnation.