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Toast
Young Nigel Slater has big culinary aspirations, even though all his mother knows how to make is toast. When his mother dies, relations grow strained between Nigel and his father, especially when he remarries a woman who wins his heart with a lemon meringue pie. Nigel enters culinary school, starts working in a pub, and finds himself competing with his stepmother - both in the kitchen and for his father's attention.
2010 · Directed by SJ Clarkson · 96 min · Drama · Comedy · History · Family · 9 frames
Tagline
The Story of a Boy's Hunger
Crew
- Written by: Lee Hall
- Cinematography: Balazs Bolygo
- Edited by: Liana Del Giudice
- Music: Ruth Barrett
- Production design: Tom Burton
- Produced by: Faye Ward
Cast
- Freddie Highmore as Nigel Slater
- Ken Stott as Dad
- Victoria Hamilton as Mum
- Oscar Kennedy as Young Nigel Slater
- Helena Bonham Carter as Mrs Potter
- Matthew McNulty as Josh
- Rob Jarvis as Fishmonger
- Selina Cadell as Ruby
- Amy Marston as Primary School Teacher
- Marion Bailey as Mrs. Adams
Production
- Country: United Kingdom
- Language: English
- Studios: Screen West Midlands, BBC Film, Ruby Films
- Themes: adolescence, cooking, nostalgia, autobiography, based on memoir or autobiography, cookies, lgbt, woman director, 1960s, mother son relationship
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