Directed by: Alexander Payne

Written by: David Hemingson

Starring: Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Dominic Sessa

Runtime: 133 min

Synopsis: A curmudgeonly instructor (Paul Giamatti) 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 (Dominic Sessa) - and with the school's head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam (Da'Vine Joy Randolph).