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.
Jim Kaplan made his professional acting debut at the age of 9 in Lincoln Center Theater's Tony Award winning revival of The King and I. He went on to appear as Lawrence in the Broadway production of School of Rock, Eric in the national tour of Matilda, and Jason in the national tour of Falsettos. On screen, he can be seen in Universal Pictures' Marry Me (2022) and director Alexander Payne's feature film The Holdovers (2023).