A working-class student fumbles his way through his first year at an upmarket university in England.
Starter For Ten
Fingers on buzzers as we check out university life with Brian (James McEvoy) in Starter For Ten as he tries to make the University Challenge team whilst dealing with his feelings for Alice (Alice Eve) and Rebecca (Rebecca Hall).
McEvoy, even at 27, convinces as a young man of 18, whilst Eve and Hall are never less than charming and show the acting skills to deal with a range of emotions and situations.
Written by David Nichols and directed by Tom Vaughan, in its most intimate moments Starter For Ten echoes the John Hughes movie Pretty In Pink, dropping its protagonist into the middle of a love-triangle and saying "make your choice" knowing that his first reaction will always be the wrong one and that he'll have to crawl over broken glass to win over the girl that he should have chosen from the beginning.
It's the journey that Brian has to take that compels, he's made some bad choices, he's lost his head on occasion, but he's working at it and putting in the effort. He's come to realise that life isn't about knowing the right answer, but asking the right questions.
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From Playtone and producers Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman and Pippa Harris, Starter For 10 is a romantic comedy set in the mid-eighties about a working-class kid struggling to make his way in the rarified world of an upper-class British University. On his way to achieving his long-held ambition to appear on the British TV Quiz Show, University Challenge, Brian Jackson (MacAvoy) falls in love with a beautiful teammate and forms a plan to win her heart through his advanced general knowledge skills. Starter For 10 is a bittersweet comedy about loyalty, class, falling in love and the difference between knowledge and wisdom.
Coming-of-age comedy drama set in the mid-1980s, starring James McAvoy as working-class Essex boy Brian Jackson, who navigates his way through his first year at Bristol University and struggles to achieve his long-held ambition to appear on the TV quiz show Univeristy Challenge. Comedienne Catherine Tate co-stars as Brian's smothering single mum.
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