STARTER FOR 10

Year: 2006
USA: Picturehouse
UK: Icon Film Distribution
Cast: James McAvoy, Alive Eve, Rebecca Hall, Catherine Tate, Dominic Cooper, Benedict Cumberbatch, Charles Dance, Ian Bonar, James Corden, Simon Woods, Ben Willbond, Lindsay Duncan, Raj Ghatak, Elaine Tan, Julian Hensey
Director: Tom Vaughan
Countries: UK / USA
USA & UK: 96 mins
USA Rated: PG-13 for sexual content, language and a scene of drug use
UK Certificate: 12A contains moderate language and one scene of drug use
USA Release Date: 9 March 2007 (Limited Release - wider)
USA Release Date: 23 February 2007 (Limited Release - New York, Los Angeles & Austin TX)
UK Release Date: 10 November 2006


Synopsis

A romantic comedy set in the mid eighties, STARTER FOR 10 stars James McAvoy as Brian Jackson, a working class teen in his first turbulent year as a student at university. It's always been his burning ambition to appear on University Challenge shich he sets about achieving but falls in love with beautiful teammate Alice Harbinson (Alice Eve).

Based on David Nicholls' best selling novel who also wrote the screenplay, STARTER FOR 10 is a coming of age film about loyalty, love, class and the difference between knowledge and wisdom.