The History Boys
History. It's just one bloody thing after another.
History. It's just one bloody thing after another.
Comedy, Drama
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2006
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The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in pursuit of an undergraduate place at Oxford or Cambridge. Bounced between their maverick English master, a young and shrewd teacher hired to up their test scores, a grossly out-numbered history teacher, and a headmaster obsessed with results, the boys attempt to pass.
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Rated:
R
Runtime:
109 min
Release date:
2 Oct 2006
Country:
GB
Languages:
English
Budget:
$4,000,000
Revenue:
$13,401,952
Awards:
Nominated for 2 BAFTA Film 2 wins & 15 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
Full of energy, ideas and fine acting.
– Eleanor Ringel Gillespie,
Atlanta Journal-Constitution,
21 Dec 2006
fresh:
The History Boys is a movie that asks questions like 'What is education really for anyway?' and asks them in an altogether witty, brainy way. It turns history into what it really is, the story of our lives.
– Terry Lawson,
Detroit Free Press,
22 Dec 2006
rotten:
The film becomes a sermonette on tolerance. But with its one-sidedness, it fails to practice what it preaches.
– Bruce Westbrook,
Houston Chronicle,
22 Dec 2006
rotten:
A funny thing happened to The History Boys on the way to the screen. The players are the same, the dialogue is pretty much identical, but the vibrancy of the play -- its exhilarating immediacy -- has been muted.
– Rene Rodriguez,
Miami Herald,
22 Dec 2006
rotten:
Taking a production pretty much intact from stage to screen robs it of its surprises. The cast seems to know what's coming, and so do we. There's not a single moment where you sense 'discovery' taking place.
– Roger Moore,
Orlando Sentinel,
22 Dec 2006