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.
Genres: Drama
Keywords: blind , blind-man , blindness-and-impaired-vision , boarding-school , cantankerous , colonel , ex-military , ferrari , limousine , new-england , new-hampshire , new-york-city , perfume , prank , preparatory-school , scholarship , tango , tears , thanksgiving , vietnam-veteran