A grumpy teacher, a troubled student and a cook spend Christmas break at a boarding school in 1970. Alexander Payne's warm, wry period piece feels like a lost seventies film, with Paul Giamatti superb.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

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IMDb: 7.9 / 10 (275,030 votes)
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