When successful New York marketing executive Katherine discovers her workaholic ways are taking a toll on her eight-year-old son, Zac, she decides to spend Christmas with him and her mother, Lilly in her home town on the…

富家小子查理·巴特利（安东·叶利钦 Anton Yelchin 饰）同时是一位点子奇多的中学生，因此履出状况的他常常被各个私立学校拒绝甚至开除，迫于无奈，父母只好让查理进入一所鱼龙混杂的公立学校念书。初来乍到的查理难免被学校里的小霸王…