Streaming · Drama
Discomfort And Joy.
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.
Alexander Payne
Director
Paul Giamatti
Actor
Dominic Sessa
Actor
Da'Vine Joy Randolph
Actor
Carrie Preston
Actor
Brady Hepner
Actor
3 scored
I have rewatched it every Christmas since. It is the only recent film I would put on for my father without checking first.
The scene where she talks about her son in the kitchen stopped the film dead in the best way. I put my fork down.
Warm and a bit predictable. I knew where it was going by the second act and did not mind being taken there.
