The Holdovers Ending Explained

SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Summary At the end of The Holdovers, Professor Paul Hunham lies to Dr. Woodrup and Angus Tully's parents to stop him from being sent to a military academy. While Hunham and Tully initially had an adversarial relationship, they formed a bond over their Christmas holiday together, changing both of them forever.

The most notable example is at the film's end, when he says it was his idea for Angus to visit Angus' dad at the sanatorium, a lie that saves Angus from being sent to military academy , but costs Hunham his job. The Paul Hunham introduced at the start of The Holdovers would never budge on his personal ethics to that degree, much less for one of the students, so this is a huge transformation for him.

The moment he truly begins to turn a corner is when he discovers Angus has a prescription for Librium, the same medication Hunham takes for depression. He begins to see how the ways Tully is acting out are mostly symptoms of his difficult family situation. Since similar struggles got him kicked out of Harvard, and he was only saved by a benevolent mentor from Barton, Hunham knows just how valuable a helping hand could be to Tully, leading him to sacrifice his career for the boy's future.

Woodrip urges Hunham to use gentler grading standards for the sons of some of Barton's more influential men, which Hunham refuses to do as it would undermine the integrity of the institution, devaluing what it means to be a "Barton man." At the end of the movie, Hunham finally learns to budge on his harsh standards, but not for one of Barton's political elite.

This leads to one of the key differences to the real-life inspiration for The Holdovers, as Tully's family is revealed to have been broken up by his father's strange, erratic behavior, which had begun years prior. Angus Tully's father was provided with medication, which apparently made matters worse, leading to the behavior becoming angry and violent.

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