After breaking out of a rehabilitation zoo, Frankie, a squirrel with all the angles, returns to his forest. He learns from his dim-witted best friend, Cody, a porcupine and street-con, that while he was in lock-up, the entire forest was picked clean by The A.C.O.R.N.S. Institute (Alternative Cosmetic Oils for Regenerative Natural Skin-care). No acorn was left behind. With winter just around the corner, it's a potentially devastating blow to all forest critters. So, Frankie has no choice but to bust into the brand new, state-of-the-art, rodent-proof A.C.O.R.N.S. Processing Plant and take back all of the acorns! Though a seemingly impossible heist, success would not only save the lives of his forest friends, but it would also give Frankie a chance to win back the love of his life, Lola, a local "show squirrel." Sadly, Lola has been burnt by too many of Frankie's false promises in the past. With the support of Frankie's old mentor, Mr. Bellwood, a wealthy badger, Frankie and Cody assemble a team of top notch "crackers" from all over the forest, including: a bat named Fly Boy, a top notch munitions expert; Raitch, a computer hacking albino snake, who never allows her lack of appendages to get in the way; Edsy a tiny "family frog," whose ability to freeze himself solid for days on end without harm is invaluable; a germophobic French rat named Liam, who can collapse his skeleton to get into any space; Chinese father-daughter pangolins named Pango and Lin, the best diggers in the forest; and Bellwood's hedgehog butler, Oscar who knows how to get his hands on anything the crew needs. With winter knocking at their door, Frankie and his crew have only three days to prepare and execute this unprecedented heist. When they learn that the processing of their forest's acorns has been pushed up a day, Lola's refusal to participate leaves Frankie and his crew one critter short. With everything on the line, Frankie and his crew of Animal Crackerz set out to pull off the biggest heist in animal history!

一個目光明亮的新生決定和一個受歡迎的學生住在一起，這導致了一段令人興奮的新友誼，但逐漸演變成一場微妙的意志之戰。

 預科學校巴頓學院的老師保羅（保羅·吉亞瑪提 飾）不太受歡迎，不管是學生、老師還是校長，都不太喜歡他，他們覺得他浮夸又僵化。在1970年的圣誕假期，保羅留在了學校監督無法回家的學生。幾天后，只有一個學生留了下來——一個名叫安格斯的15歲搗蛋鬼，他是一個被不良行為破壞的好學生，總是在被開除的邊緣試探。與保羅和安格斯一起留下的還有學校廚師長瑪麗，一個為特權階層的兒子們提供服務的非裔美國婦女，她自己的兒子最近在越南失蹤了。這三個截然不同的失意者組成了一個奇怪的圣誕家庭，在新英格蘭大雪紛飛的兩個星期里，分享著不幸經歷，并意識到他們中沒有人感謝自己的過去。

 短片講述了一個帶著三個孩子的母親，因為日常生活和丈夫陷入沮喪。而這時，她發現自己可以通過窗戶看到住在對面鄰居的生活...