The read
Every source lands within 8 points of the others.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb6.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes66%
Metacritic74/100
223 audience votes
Key crew
- Alan BennettScreenplay
- Nicholas HytnerDirector
- George FentonOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Richard GriffithsHector
- Stephen Campbell MooreIrwin
- Dominic CooperDakin
- Samuel BarnettPosner
- James CordenTimms
- Russell ToveyRudge
- Samuel AndersonCrowther
- Jamie ParkerScripps
- Andrew KnottLockwood
- Sacha DhawanAkhtar
- Clive MerrisonHeadmaster
- Frances de la TourMrs. Lintott
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Themes
high schoolnorthern englandscholarshipbecoming an adulteducationexambased on play or musicaloxfordcambridgeyorkshireteacherhigh school teacher