Starter for 10
2006 · TMDB 6.4
Directed by Tom Vaughan
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.
Why it matters
Brian Jackson, a working-class scholarship boy, arrives at Bristol University in 1985, where his love of knowledge and his dreams of University Challenge collide with the realities of class, sex, and friendship.
- Runtime
- 96 min
- Released
- 2006-09-13
- Studio
- Scion Films
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- TMDB score
- 6.4
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