Starter for 10

About Starter for 10

In 1985, against the backdrop of Thatcherism, Brian Jackson enrolls in the University of Bristol, a scholarship boy from seaside Essex with a love of knowledge for its own sake and a childhood spent watching University Challenge, a college quiz show. At Bristol he tries out for the Challenge team and falls under the spell of Alice, a lovely blond with an extensive sexual past.

Tom Vaughan's Starter for 10 is a 2006 comedy romance film. James McAvoy takes the lead as Brian Jackson, Alice Eve as Alice Harbinson, Rebecca Hall as Rebecca Epstein, and Catherine Tate as Julie Jackson.

It runs 96 minutes and was released in November 2006. Written by David Nicholls. It comes from Neal Street Productions and Scion Films.

Shelv files it under cheerful, marijuana, theft, and university. American members can watch it on HBO Max and HBO Max Amazon Channel. It scores 6.4 out of 10 from 466 TMDB voters and it carries a PG-13 rating.

Convoy, Blood and Wine, and Cars make useful companions to Starter for 10, all filed under fight and protest.