A cranky history teacher at a remote prep school is forced to remain on campus over the Christmas break to babysit a handful of students with nowhere to go. He soon forms an unlikely bond with a brainy but damaged troublemaker, and with the school's head cook, a woman who just lost a son in the Vietnam War.
Director: Alexander Payne
Writer: David Hemingson
Stars: Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Dominic Sessa