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Starter for 10

64% | Sep 13, 2006 | Drama, Comedy, Romance

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.

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Tom Vaughan
Director
David Nicholls
Novel

Cast

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James McAvoy
Brian Jackson
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Alice Eve
Alice Harbinson
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Rebecca Hall
Rebecca Epstein
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Catherine Tate
Julie Jackson

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