Sometimes it's not about the right answers.
Set in the mid-Eighties, Starter for 10 is a comedy about a working-class boy stumbling romantically and academically through his first year of University. On the way to achieving his lifelong ambition to appear on TV quiz show University Challenge, he falls in love with his beautiful teammate and forms a plan to win her heart through his advanced general knowledge skills.
Starter for 10 is a bittersweet comedy about loyalty, class, falling in love and the difference between knowledge and wisdom.
Starring:
James McAvoy, Rebecca Hall, Alice Eve, Benedict Cumberbatch, Elaine Tan, Lindsay Duncan, Charles Dance, Catherine Tate, Dominic Cooper, James Corden, Mark Gatiss
Director:
Tom Vaughan
Producers:
Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman, Pippa Harris
Screenplay:
David Nicholls
Executive Producers:
Sam Mendes, Steven Shareshian, Nathalie Marciano, Michelle Chydzik
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Credits summary:
HBO presents in association with Picturehouse and BBC Films, a Playtone picture, in association with Neal Street Productions
Certificate:
12A
Running time:
96 mins
Released
10 November 2006
Out on DVD
23 April 2007
Broadcast on
30 November 2016