Plot
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.
Cast
Paul Giamatti
Paul Hunham
Dominic Sessa
Angus Tully
Da'Vine Joy Randolph
Mary Lamb
Carrie Preston
Miss Lydia Crane
Brady Hepner
Teddy Kountze
Ian Dolley
Alex Ollerman
Jim Kaplan
Ye-Joon Park
Michael Provost
Jason Smith
Andrew Garman
Dr. Hardy Woodrup
Naheem Garcia
Danny
Stephen Thorne
Thomas Tully
Gillian Vigman
Judy Clotfelter
Crew
Mark Johnson
Producer
David Hemingson
Writer
Alexander Payne
Director
Eigil Bryld
Director of Photography
Bill Block
Producer
David Hemingson
Producer
Mark Orton
Original Music Composer
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