- Content: “Good Message with Dubious Morals”
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What You Need To Know:
Paul’s lack of friendship or relationship, Angus’ depression and anti-social tendencies due to his dysfunctional family, and Mary’s grief for her late son, Charles, a Barton student who died in Vietnam, all mesh together perfectly. They create heart-wrenching drama and belly-laughing comedy in equal measure. These strongly written characters evolve together beautifully. THE HOLDOVERS promotes an important message about respecting other people, despite their differences. The three main characters come to see the humanity in one another, even while seeing each other’s flaws front and center. Although this idea is valuable for moviegoers to learn and remember, the severe foul language and other moral lapses in THE HOLDOVERS warrant extreme caution.
Content:
Moderate moral worldview promotes the virtue of treating other people with respect, regardless of their age, race, level of education, socioeconomic status, etc., with some references to Christmas, marred by some immoral behavior
At least 21 “f” words, 29 other obscenities, two strong profanities involving the name of Jesus, and three light profanities
A fist fight occurs between two teenage boys
Verbal references to pornography and sexual promiscuity
Brief upper female nudity in a magazine photo, and teenage boy reads a magazine with a woman in lingerie spreading her legs apart
Characters drink beer in multiple scenes, and man drinks hard liquor in multiple scenes
Characters smoke cigarettes and marijuana; and,
Dysfunctional family depicted where a woman left her husband for another man after he was diagnosed with severe mental illness and institutionalized, and a student bullies other students.
More Detail:
Crafted in a subtle “home movie” style, THE HOLDOVERS transports the audience effortlessly back to 1970. It’s a time when, though many men in their late teens had left, voluntarily or not, to fight in the Vietnam War, the sons of “old money” New Englanders were receiving a premier education at institutions like Barton, the setting of acclaimed director, Alexander Payne’s latest movie. Hunham’s lack of friendship or relationship, Angus’ depression and anti-social tendencies due to his dysfunctional family, and Mary’s grief for her late son, Charles, a Barton student who died in Vietnam, all mesh together perfectly, creating heart-wrenching drama and belly-laughing comedy in equal measure. These three strongly written characters grow and evolve together beautifully.
THE HOLDOVERS promotes an important message about respecting other people, even if they are different. The three main characters come to see the humanity in one another, even while
seeing each other’s flaws front and center. Although this idea is valuable for Christians to learn and remember, the severe foul language and the characters’ other moral lapses in THE HOLDOVERS warrant extreme caution.
