Starter for 10

Directed by Tom Vaughan. With James McAvoy, Alice Eve, Rebecca Hall, Joseph Friend. Set in 1985, working-class student Brian Jackson (McAvoy) navigates his first year at Bristol University.

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Philip French: A modest and very British movie.

Don't mind the featherweight plot. A cheeky comedy with sex and smarts arns passing grade. James McAvoy (The Last King of Scotland) is a live ire as Brian, a working-class lad who leaves his Essex mates (Dominic ooper and James Corden) to join the snobs at Bristol University. The year is 1985, when University Challenge (a TV quiz show modeled on College owl) lets Brian show off his knowledge, impress a hot blonde (Alice ve) and lose his heart to a firebrand (enchantress Rebecca Hall, a true ind of an actress). All the actors are spot on, with special shout-outs o Catherine Tate as Brian's widowed mum and Benedict Cumberbatch as he hilariously pompous captain of the Bristol TV team. Tom Hanks, whose company produced, also deserves high marks for allowing writer David Nicholls, who adapted his own novel, and director Tom Vaughan, both Bristol alums, to stay true to their class-conscious British roots. Jolly good show.

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A working-class English boy who has been fortunate enough to be accepted into a posh private university struggles to realize his lifelong dream while simultaneously winning the heart of the girl he loves in a romantic, bittersweet comedy directed by Tom Vaughan and starring James McAvoy, Rebecca Hall, and Charles Dance. The time is the mid-'80s, and the University Challenge phenomenon is sweeping through England. Despite his underprivileged background, Essex boy Brian Jackson (McAvoy) knows that he has what it takes to make it to the finals on one of the most popular programs in all of England. Upon being accepted into Bristol, the ambitious young student soon tries out for the school's University Challenge team, and set the gears of his ultimate fantasy into motion. Effectively estranged from his single-parent mother (Catherine Tate) just for being accepted into the school, Brian soon gets set to cross yet another class line when he becomes smitten with his beautiful University Challenge teammate and attempts to woo her into his arms her with his formidable advanced general knowledge skills.

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A description of tropes appearing in Starter for 10. For as long as he can remember, working class Southender Brian Jackson has craved knowledge and dreamed …

Starter for 10 is a 2006 British comedy-drama film directed by Tom Vaughan from a screenplay by David Nicholls, adapted from his own novel Starter for Ten. The film stars James McAvoy as a university student who wins a place on a University Challenge quiz team. It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2006, and was released in the UK and Ireland on 10 November 2006, and in Canada and the US on 23 February 2007.