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Starter for 10
Comedy, Drama, Romance - 2006
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In 1985, against the backdrop of Thatcherism, Brian Jackson enrolls in the University of Bristol, a scholarship boy from seaside Essex with a love of knowledge for its own sake and a childhood spent watching University Challenge, a college quiz show. At Bristol he tries out for the Challenge team and falls under the spell of Alice, a lovely blond with an extensive sexual past.
Director:
,
Tom Vaughan
Cast:
,
Charles Dance
,
James McAvoy
,
Rebecca Hall
,
Simon Woods
,
Guy Henry
,
James Corden
,
Dominic Cooper
,
Alice Eve
,
John Henshaw
,
Elaine Tan

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Rated:
PG-13
Runtime:
92 min
Release date:
13 Sep 2006
Country:
GB, US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$8
Revenue:
$21
Awards:
1 win & 3 nominations

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
Some nice performances and modest laughs highlight this amiable British comedy about a young man who goes off to Bristol University in the mid-'80s and does what young people naturally do when they go to college.
– Walter V. Addiego,
San Francisco Chronicle,
16 Mar 2007
fresh:
[The film] bears many of the hallmarks of teen comedies, but also boasts virtues not generally associated with the genre, such as wit, class consciousness, multidimensional characters, and a penetrating intelligence.
– Nathan Rabin,
AV Club,
22 Sep 2007
fresh:
This is expertly crafted entertainment that follows all the beats of a traditional romantic comedy, but it's done with such sincerity that it's difficult to begrudge the odd descent into cliche.
– Chris Tilly,
Time Out,
22 Sep 2007
rotten:
There's nothing here we haven't seen done better before.
– David Fear,
Time Out New York,
22 Sep 2007
fresh:
Conventional, slight, but charming.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
4 Dec 2007
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