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Starter for Ten (2006)

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Release Date
• USA: Feb 23, 2007
BoxOffice: $0.2M

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MPAA Rating
Rated PG-13 for sexual content, language and a scene of drug use.

Country UK, USA

Production Companies
HBO Films, Neal Street Productions, Playtone, Scamp Film and Theatre Ltd.

Studio Picturehouse

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Other Titles
• Starter for Ten (2006)
• Starter for 10



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Genre: Romance, Drama

Plot: "Ever since I can remember, I've wanted to be clever," Brian Jackson confesses in voice over at the start of STARTER FOR 10. A working-class student from Essex navigating his first year at Bristol University, Brian (James McAvoy) has a lot to prove. While his hometown mates1 worry about him turning into a poncey2 wanker3, Brian's biggest concern is making the team for the long-running British television quiz show University Challenge. (The game show, which began in 1962 and is something like the UK's answer to Jeopardy, pits four-member teams from posh4 universities against each other. "Starter" questions, worth ten points each, give the film its title.)

Amidst Tarts & Vicars dances, anti-Apartheid rallies, minging6 dorm rooms and puffs of marijuana smoke, Brian also finds himself romantically torn between two very different co-eds: ultra-fit7 blonde bombshell and University Challenge teammate Alice (Alice Eve), and thoughtful, politically-conscious Rebecca Epstein (Rebecca Hall in Christopher Nolan's THE PRESTIGE).

With Margaret Thatcher's economically depressed Blighty8 as a backdrop, and a killer, pitchperfect New Wave soundtrack—featuring music by The Cure, Wham!, Bananarama, Yaz, The Smiths, New Order, Tears For Fears, Echo and the Bunnymen, The Buzzcocks, and The

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 Directed by
Tom Vaughan
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Charles Dance
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Tom Allen
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Dominic Cooper
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 Music By
Blake Neely
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