The History Boys
2006 · TMDB 6.6
Directed by Nicholas Hytner
The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in pursuit of an undergraduate place at Oxford or Cambridge. Bounced between their maverick English master, a young and shrewd teacher hired to up their test scores, a grossly out-numbered history teacher, and a headmaster obsessed with results, the boys attempt to pass.
Why it matters
A group of bright, working-class sixth-formers in 1980s Sheffield are coached for Oxbridge entrance by two teachers with radically different philosophies, exposing the tensions between learning for its own sake and learning as a means to an end.
- Runtime
- 109 min
- Released
- 2006-10-02
- Studio
- DNA Films
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- TMDB score
- 6.6
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