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Genres:
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Comedy /
Drama /
Romance /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Tom Vaughan
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Actors:
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Catherine Tate,
James Gaddas,
Joseph Friend,
Robert Cawsey,
Guy Henry,
Mark Gatiss,
Rasmus Hardiker,
James McAvoy,
James Corden,
Dominic Cooper
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Duration:
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92 min.
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Rating:
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(6.7/10)105
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Plot Summary:
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In 1985, against the backdrop of Thatcherism, Brian Jackson enrolls in the University of Bristol, a knowledge boy from seaside Essex with a love of knowledge for its own reasons and a adolescence spurt watching "University Challenge," a college question show. At Bristol he tries peripheral exhausted for the Challenge span and falls under the spell of Alice, a captivating blond with an wide sexy life. He's smitten, and he carelessly manages to hurt the feelings of Rebecca Epstein, a friend whose politics and punster he admires. The Challenge finale is coming up; maybe Brian can redeem himself ... and alleviate avoid being a prat.
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Starter for 10
Brian Johnston (McAvoy) may be naive, but what he lacks in street smarts he more than makes up proper for in keenness and the retention of useless trivia. "Knowledge is power. Which is why I scarceness to know the whole shebang," he explains. "Like, why people jazz..." This appealing discredit of ironical coddle together with those awe-inspiring miscellaneous conversance skills earn him not just his lifetime avidity of a place on a team inasmuch as the TV quiz 'University Doubt' when he starts at Bristol University in 1985, but also the regard of two inviting girls, Rebecca (Classroom, daughter of steersman Peter Hall) and Alice (Eve). Sadly, Brian, with his virginal clumsiness, is unable to properly capitalise on his unfamiliar found mojo....
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