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Starter for 10 [Blu-ray]

James McAvoy (Actor), Alice Eve (Actor), Tom Vaughan (Director) Format: Blu-ray

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Genre	Comedy/British
Format	Blu-ray, Multiple Formats, Import
Contributor	Tom Vaughan, Mark Gatiss, Catherine Tate, Alice Eve, James McAvoy
Language	English

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Directed by Tom Vaughan. Starring Catherine Tate, Dominic Cooper, Alice Eve.

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Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.1 x 5.42 x 0.58 inches; 0.01 Ounces
Item model number ‏ : ‎ ICON70104
Director ‏ : ‎ Tom Vaughan
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Blu-ray, Multiple Formats, Import
Release date ‏ : ‎ December 8, 2008
Actors ‏ : ‎ James McAvoy, Alice Eve, Catherine Tate, Mark Gatiss
Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
Language ‏ : ‎ English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
Studio ‏ : ‎ Icon Home Entertainment
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B001MK9ZJ4
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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Dafydd Mac an Leigh

A charming, intelligent comedy about growing up

Reviewed in the United States on August 13, 2007

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From a very young age, Brian Jackson has crammed his mind with facts and knowledge, and now he's off to university for more. But the most important lesson he has to learn is that knowledge and wisdom are not the same thing.

Brian quickly makes a strong impression in academia, especially when he gets onto the school team for University Challenge, the wildly popular quiz show he grew up watching with his father. But the rest of life isn't so easy: Brian falls head-over-heels for his beautiful but self-centered teammate Alice, who leads him on despite having no real interest in intimacy; his mother, now ten years widowed, has found a new lover; he just can't sort out his feelings for Rebecca, a student activist with more than a passing interest in him; his blue-collar mates from home are starting to regard him as a class traitor; and any time he tries to be clever or impulsive, it always goes awry.

James McAvoy, who has already won great critical acclaim for his skills in dramatic roles, shows that he is equally adept in comedy, giving Brian an aw-shucks charm that keeps him loveable despite his penchant for saying exactly the wrong thing. Among the rest of the cast, the two greatest standouts are Benedict Cumberbatch, who steals his every scene as the hilariously snobbish team captain, and the extraordinarily talented Rebecca Hall, who plays Rebecca with such spirit and beauty that you can't help rooting for Brian to come around and realize that she's the one for him. Veteran thespians Charles Dance and Lindsay Duncan have a brilliant cameo as Alice's parents, and Mark Gatiss makes a convicing Bamber Gascoigne (the long-time host of University Challenge, and a real-life icon of British TV).

The script is witty, and gives new twists to the traditional conventions of romantic comedy. The climax on the set of University Challenge, and an earlier scene involving a misguided reference to The Graduate, are particularly well done. I can't help feeling, though, that the movie missed a few good opportunities as well. I understand the need to streamline the story, but I can't help feeling that they streamlined too much: fun characters disappear not long after they're introduced, certain aspects of Brian's schoolyear are mentioned when they should have been shown, and so on.

All the same, I thoroughly enjoyed the movie, and highly recommend it for any fans of romantic comedy, British film, or movies with cool '80s soundtracks.

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Terry Hawes

Engaging Movie.

Reviewed in the United States on June 29, 2014

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The movie is set in the mid-1980's as Brian Jackson (played by James McAvoy) ventures off to the University of Bristol leaving behind his widowed mother and his 2 best friends, whom he grew up with in Southend.

Brian used to spend his time watching the quiz show, University Challenge, with his father; however, his relationship with his father was not particularly close and throughout the movie there seems to be a lot of regret from Brian about what happened and it shows when he is rather cool to his mother's new boyfriend, Des.

But Brian is an underdog character that viewers will like as he is always striving to be the best he can be. While he is always eager to learn new things, he struggles to figure out his own identity and this comes to a head when he struggles to choose between attractive blonde, Alice, and the equally attractive, Rebecca.

Brian eventually succeeds in making the Bristol team for University Challenge, but while we expect him to save the day and win the big match for Bristol, we are presented with an unlikely scenario which I will not spoil for you.

Another character that stood out for me in this film was Brian's friend, Spencer, who worries that Brian will become a stuck-up know-it-all. On a visit to Bristol, he has a brief fling with Alice, which infuriates Brian and leads to a confrontation. The pair make up at the end and it leads to a profound conversation a few weeks after Brian's 'incident' on University Challenge.

Starter for 10 is well worth adding to your DVD collection.

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Arlene M.

Great movie, but destroyed for US DVD by needless editing

Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2016

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I would rate this a 5 for James McAvoy's and Rebecca Hall's performances, in particular, but all the actors were wonderful. Great story, great music, and perfectly cast. I give the DVD a miserable 3 stars. The Pop-up Music Guide feature does not work at all. But the worst part is that they deleted scenes that were hysterical, such as the pot smoking scene with Brain and Alice.I hate the needless editing, and pot is even legal in many parts of the US now. This was stupid to edit out, and was a much funnier scene as originally done! I wonder what else they removed for this kiddie garbage American version. Why didn't they include the deleted scenes or offer the REAL movie for adults? If I had known, I would not have bought the DVD - I just would have streamed this reduced and watered-down American junk version of the real film.

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Stuart Wolsh

So Funny!

Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2022

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Great writing and chemistry from the actors.

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K. Brooks

The book was great, the movie was good

Reviewed in the United States on October 5, 2007

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Those of you who read the book may be a bit disappointed by its screen adaptation, an all to common occurrence when a book becomes a film.

Placing that comment aside and reviewing this film without use of a pretense, Starter for 10 is a cute, all be it a bit campy, British comedy about the bumps and hiccups brought by coming of age, finding ones future, and facing ones past. James McAvoy does a brilliant job of making his character lovably awkward. The subtle comedy, satirical character types and romantic interfaces make this a must see for any University Challenge fan (or anyone looking for a good laugh).

1 star off only because the book was better.

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T. G. Baudouin

Nice little movie! James McAvoy's GREAT!

Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2007

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I found this movie quite charming -much to do with the fact that James McAvoy is the central figure in it...I truly think we'll find him in a lot of good films in the future, which is GREAT!-.
The movie's the story of a boy who struggles to find himself while growing up -falling in love and making mistakes on a university TV quiz show are trascendantal-
You can get easily related to it...even more if you have had interest in accumulating a lot of useless -yet fascinating- data in your brain to feel more intellectual or to guarantee yourself a "special" place in this world. Simple,sweet, funny and as I said before...charming!

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cora

Coming of Age in the 1980s

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 9, 2018

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Brian (James McAvoy) is from a working class family living in a sleepy seaside town in England. It's 1985 and he sets off for his first term at university in Bristol. He is a geeky kid with no previous exposure to the world beyond his hometown. Now he meets new people, makes friends, flirts awkwardly, goes on dates, makes all kinds of embarrassing mistakes and slowly discovers how the world really works.

However, his greatest ambition while at uni is to become a member of the team competing at the popular televised University Challenge quiz. He does make the team and there is a bit of fun to be had for anybody familiar with the program. The filmmakers are having their fun with the quiz team, including beside nerdy Brian pompous but rather useless team captain Patrick (Benedict Cumberbatch), a serious Asian girl, and drop dead gorgeous drama student Alice, intent on being discovered for a future career in TV. There's quite a bit of subtle satire here.

The cast is fantastic, with James McAvoy giving a very engaging performance as Brian. However, it is Benedict Cumberbatch as the rather unlikable quiz team captain who absolutely steals the show. He is absolutely hilarious. Also in there is heartthrob Dominic Cooper, playing Brian's lifelong friend Spence, who is a bit of a bad boy. A very hunky one though. Lindsay Duncan and the great Charles Dance have rather fun small roles as parents of the gorgeous Alice. The script is excellent and the many embarrassing and angst laden scenes are eminently relatable for anybody who has ever been an insecure young student. Overall a nice little coming of age film. Probably best enjoyed by those remember that rather bizarre decade that was the 80s and who enjoy a bit of nostalgia.

The DVD has English subtitles for those who may need them and the extras include a trailer, an interactive 80s quiz and numerous in depth interviews with the director, writer and cast (among them James McAvoy, Rebecca Hall, Alice Eve, Dominic Cooper, Lindsay Duncan).

7 people found this helpful

Susan Bennett

lots of fun

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 6, 2023

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Terrific actors before celebrity

Bad boiz in da house, With a touch of harmony!

A brilliant film **** and i dont mean the f;word!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 18, 2007

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This work of art is absolutely great! It is the acting from James Mcavoy, Alice Eve,Catherine Tate Rebecca Hall and my personal fave, the amazing Bennidict Cumberbatch as the teams quiz leader that make this film what it is.
It is a nice relatable story of a young man Brian Jackson, who all his life has wanted to be clever.leaving his familiar, commen surroundings and persuing his dream of gaining a vast amount of knowledge he goes to Uni so that he can join the Universitys team, to go on Uniersity challenge. Along the way he falls for the, at first sit, beautiful Alice, but throughout the fil learns from his mistakes with women and has a nice change from other romantic comedys as Brian realises that not every stunning girl on the outside is as stunning on the inside, and the ones who are less boastful of there looks are stunning on the inside.
It has a brilliant sountrack, that i'm deffinately going to buy and has a good theme of the 80's( even though i wasnt born then)With scenes that ay or may not make your sides ache with laughter, depending on your tastes. But to look at it this way, I personally used to think that University Challenge was a load of balls, much to my mums dismay, but since watching this film, i shall never look upon University Challlenge with loathing ever agin!!!
See it, coz it's Amazing, even for a not so clever 15 year old.

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Jason Parkes

Enjoyable, though flawed adaptation

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 17, 2007

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Starter for 10 is a tricky one, part of it felt completely right, and I was thinking that the tight hour-and-a-half duration was a good thing, cutting through the slightly overlong source novel. Getting to the end of the movie made me come to the conclusion that this TV-funded adaptation wasn't long enough and only made sense if you've read the novel. I think that Starter for 10 would have been better had it been a three-part TV series like The Rotter's Club. That way the characters and their relationships could have been explored more, the chemistry between Spencer and Brian, and Brian and Rebecca would have been more apparent. Brian's past and home life is under-developed as is his relationships.

& some of the twists they've taken...I guess it's not the end of the world that Rebecca loses her Scottish accent, which I guess is a commercial concession? But that Spencer cops off with Alice? That made little narrative sense. Brian's bedroom experience with Alice in the book doesn't occur, so it feels like he's mooning over nothing really. Brian's meltdown at the end of the book is hugely diluted into a trifling affair, rather than a whole year written off as a bad mistake, and the book ended with the idea that Brian was with Rebecca on holiday, but secretely writing to and obssessed with Alice (though of course, this would be madness in the film as the character of Rebecca Epstein is truly lovely, I am of the opinion too that Rebecca Hall is the ideal female. I couldn't buy the fact that anyone would be interested in any other female, Brian met her first and all would pale after her!).

The bones of the novel are here, and I think that this would probably be quite enjoyable to those who haven't read or connected to the novel yet. Parts of it are like a lighter version of Me Without You during its 80s sections, though I'm not sure about using Cure songs from 1989 in something supposedly set in 1985/1986? (Pictures of You). There are lots of Cure songs, something that reminds me of Mike Leigh's flawed Career Girls - a shame that loads of Cure songs feature, but there isn't a Robert Smith impersonator in sight! & shouldn't there have been a Smiths reference, if we're talking the 80s, when one couldn't escape Morrissey? Starter for 10 is going for an 80s-lite feel, but it's a shame it all feels a bit shallow and that obvious non student pop like I'm Your Man by Wham features. An Epcot Eighties? & the whole bit with snow at Xmas etc, feels like the UK that doesn't exist that also featured in Bridget Jones Diary. I guess this is meant to be an 80s utopia?

Flaws apart, Starter for 10 is an entertaining movie, and the majority of the performances are excellent - though I'm not yet sold on Catherine Tate as much of an actor, she seems as mannered as always (& I felt sorry for her, since she's not much older than James McAvoy!). Dominic Cooper is underused, as are several of the other University Challenge team types and Brian's chubby metal-listening friend back home! McAvoy and Hall are great though, and I thought Alice Eve was fine, though felt she was playing a very similar role to that she played in The Rotter's Club! Well worth watching, despite the irritation, and can any film that features my idea of the perfect female - Rebecca Hall/Rebecca Epstein - has to be seen. Slobber, drool, swoon etc. She's great in The Prestige and Wide Sargasso Sea too...

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Tazwalker

Spass zum Nachdenken

Reviewed in Germany on July 22, 2010

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College, verschiedene jungen Menschen aus verschiedenen Kreisen, lernen um Erwachsen zu werden...
Als ich diese Punkte einem Freund nannte, fragte dieser: Wie American Pie?!
OMG nein!
Sich hier fremdschämen ist so gut wie unmöglich und britischer Humor ist eben der bessere (für mich).
Zur Handlung:
Brian schafft es auf die Uni. Voller Eifer und Wissensdurst stürzt er sich ins Getümmel.
Er findet sich zwischen zwei Stühlen wieder, und das auch noch mal 2:
einmal ist es doch sehr schwierig, seine Heimat und die Uni unter einen Hut zu bringen, den diese Welten sind der Unterschied in Person. So ist es auch nicht verwunderlich, dass es zum Austausch von Backenfutter zwischen seinem Kumpel und einem Doktorant kommt.
Und dann sind da 2 Frauen: eine blond, schlau, hübsch und aus besseren Kreisen, eine dunkelhaarig, ebenfalls hübsch und schlau, aber mit spitzer Zunge. Wie entscheiden?!
Der Weg führt ihn in eine Quizshow, Uni gegen Uni. Und das Ende schaut ihr euch selbst an ;)
Da es in England in den 80-igern in Uni's doch sehr um die Klassen-Unterschiede ging (und es vielleicht heute auch noch so ist, kA), trifft dieser Film den Ton sehr gut. Aber keine Angst, was die Kleidung dieser Zeit betrifft, hält sich der Film bedeckt. Dafür wird der Soundtrack einigen ein Grinsen auf die Lippen zaubern.

Unter'm Strich ist diese Geschichte eine herzwärmende, irgend-wie-Romanze, mit viel Witz, viel Dingen die man nicht wissen muss ("You're a general-knowledge god") und ein klasse James McAvoy in der Hauptrolle.

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