Director Tom Vaughan
Screenplay David Nicholls
Starter for 10
Release Date: 2006-09-13
Duration: 92 minutes
Synopsis
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.
Casting
- James McAvoyBrian Jackson
- Rebecca HallRebecca Epstein
- Benedict CumberbatchPatrick Watts
- Alice EveAlice Harbinson
- Charles DanceMichael Harbinson
- Lindsay DuncanRose Harbison
- Mark GatissBamber Gascoigne
- John HenshawDes
- Dominic CooperSpencer
- Nicholas GleavesSpeaker for Nuclear Disarmament
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