Toast
The Story of a Boy's Hunger
The Story of a Boy's Hunger
Comedy, Drama, Family, History
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2010
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Young Nigel Slater has big culinary aspirations, even though all his mother knows how to make is toast. When his mother dies, relations grow strained between Nigel and his father, especially when he remarries a woman who wins his heart with a lemon meringue pie. Nigel enters culinary school, starts working in a pub, and finds himself competing with his stepmother - both in the kitchen and for his father's attention.
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Runtime:
96 min
Release date:
30 Dec 2010
Country:
GB
Languages:
English
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
2 nominations
Top Critics Reviews
rotten:
Like its namesake, "Toast" is crusty comfort food with little nutritional substance.
– Joe Williams,
St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
21 Oct 2011
fresh:
"Toast" has three things deserving of adoration: spectacular lemon-meringue pies, the songs of Dusty Springfield and Helena Bonham Carter.
– Tom Keogh,
Seattle Times,
20 Oct 2011
rotten:
Director S.J. Clarkson seems oblivious to the dissonance; perhaps he's deafened by the music.
– Ty Burr,
Boston Globe,
13 Oct 2011
rotten:
For the most part, the movie feels like an emotional vacuum, mirroring the drab vanilla and mint green interiors of the Slaters' home.
– Stephanie Merry,
Washington Post,
7 Oct 2011
fresh:
"Toast," is by turns sweet and tart, airy and rich and, above all, a thoroughly irresistible confection.
– Gary Goldstein,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Oct 2011