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.

Spirited
2022
6.8/10

Child's Play
1972
6.1/10

Beyond the Blackboard
2011
7.6/10

Dutch
1991
6.5/10

Dead Poets Society
1989
8.3/10

Manchester by the Sea
2016
7.6/10

It's a Wonderful Life
1946
8.3/10

Detachment
2011
7.6/10

Renaissance Man
1994
6.1/10

Beaches
1988
6.7/10

Wish I Was Here
2014
6.5/10

Patch Adams
1998
7.3/10

Coupe de Ville
1990
6.5/10

Half Brothers
2020
7.3/10

The Big Chill
1983
6.8/10

The Hurricane
1999
7.4/10

All Together Now
2020
6.7/10

Young Adult
2011
5.8/10

Pieces of April
2003
6.5/10

A Dog Year
2009
6.2/10
Ordinary Angels
2024
7.673/10