Grabbing the popcornโฆ
Grabbing the popcornโฆ
Grabbing the popcornโฆ


"Discomfort and joy."
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 โ a damaged, brainy troublemaker โ and with the schoolโs head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.
Directed by Alexander Payne
Written by David Hemingson
Produced by: Mark Johnson, Andrew Golov, Thom Zadra
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