Question 1

Is The Holdovers woke?

Accepted Answer

The Holdovers has a woke score of 45/100, which means it is mixed, with noticeable woke elements. The movie keeps pushing race and class messaging through the Black cook's grief over her son. The story constantly shows how the Black son died in Vietnam while the rich white prep school boys didn't have to serve. Dialogue directly calls out the inequity and privilege. The film uses these identity and institutional bias themes to drive part of the narrative.

Question 2

Is there DEI in The Holdovers?

Accepted Answer

The biggest factors in our score are Representation / casting choices, Political / ideological dialogue, Identity-driven story themes. 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.

The Holdovers

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