It's fine. Just fine. Not brilliant, not lousy. Fine. No new territory here. Exclusive boy's school somewhere in New England with stuffy professors and troubled rich kids. Set in 1970. At Christmas, a cranky prof, a difficult boy and a mother in mourning find themselves alone and drifting. They break through the icy exteriors, make connections, learn a little about each other and themselves at the same time. There is good acting. But I feel like I've seen this movie a bunch of times. I didn't walk away with anything fresh. I didn't even think about it much afterwards. And how it nabbed a best picture nom over "The Color Purple", I'll never know. Lastly, one note -- if you are setting a film in 1970, please have a better soundtrack. This was one of the most iconic time periods of rock music. You couldn't create a better score?
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