Charlie Simms is a student at a private preparatory school who comes from a poor family. To earn the money for his flight home to Gresham, Oregon for Christmas, Charlie takes a job over Thanksgiving looking after retired U.S. Army officer Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade, a cantankerous middle-aged man who lives with his niece and her family.

• DirectorMartin Brest
• Release23 December 1992
• Genre
  Drama / Comedy
• Duration2h 36m
• Budget$31,000,000
• Revenue$134,100,000
• Rate
  

  7.8
  3546 reviews
• Productions

  Universal Pictures, City Light Films