The story
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.
Watch trailerCast & crew
Paul GiamattiPaul Hunham
Dominic SessaAngus Tully
Da'Vine Joy RandolphMary Lamb
Carrie PrestonMiss Lydia Crane
Brady HepnerTeddy Kountze
Ian DolleyAlex Ollerman
Jim KaplanYe-Joon Park
Michael ProvostJason Smith
Andrew GarmanDr. Hardy Woodrup
Naheem GarciaDanny
Stephen ThorneThomas Tully
Gillian VigmanJudy ClotfelterExplore the crew
- Producer
- Mark Johnson
- Writer
- David Hemingson
- Director
- Alexander Payne
- Director of Photography
- Eigil Bryld
- Editor
- Kevin Tent
- Producer
- Bill Block
- Producer
- David Hemingson
- Original Music Composer
- Mark Orton