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.
Paul Giamatti
as Paul Hunham
Dominic Sessa
as Angus Tully
Da'Vine Joy Randolph
as Mary Lamb
Carrie Preston
as Miss Lydia Crane
Brady Hepner
as Teddy Kountze
Ian Dolley
as Alex Ollerman
Jim Kaplan
as Ye-Joon Park
Michael Provost
as Jason Smith
Andrew Garman
as Dr. Hardy Woodrup
Naheem Garcia
as Danny
Stephen Thorne
as Thomas Tully
Gillian Vigman
as Judy Clotfelter