Overview
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.
Details
- Director
- Alexander Payne
- Writer
- David Hemingson
- Original Language
- English
- Budget
- $13,000,000
Cast
Andrew Garman
Brady Hepner
Carrie Preston
Da'Vine Joy Randolph
Dominic Sessa
Ian Dolley
Jim Kaplan
Michael Provost
Naheem Garcia
Paul Giamatti
Keywords
1970s
alcoholism
boarding school
boston
massachusetts
boys' boarding school
christmas
christmas time
compassionate
cook
grief
hilarious
holiday
intimate
loss of son
mental illness
misfit
new england
nostalgic
playful
sentimental
teacher student relationship
troubled youth
vietnam war
winter
winter break
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