They set little traps for Hunham’s arrogance and sic their daddies on the administrators, who then bear down on him.
It’s a ritzy, laugh-out-loud Christmas miracle that whisks away four of the boys at the end of the first act.
But one of them, an almost cool only-child named Angus Tully (Dominic Sessa), can’t go because nobody can reach his parents.
He directed this movie — from a script David Hemingson wrote — and moody, quarrelsome people are his specialty.
This is his eighth feature-length movie — “Citizen Ruth,” “Election,” “Sideways,” “About Schmidt,” “The Descendants,” “Nebraska” and “Downsizing” precede this one.
Persons:
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Organizations:
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Locations:
New England, Barton, St, Kitts, ” “