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The History Boys
The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in pursuit of an undergraduate place at Oxford or Cambridge. Bounced between their maverick English master, a young and shrewd teacher hired to up their test scores, a grossly out-numbered history teacher, and a headmaster obsessed with results, the boys attempt to pass.
2006 · Directed by Nicholas Hytner · 109 min · Drama · 10 frames
Tagline
History. It's just one bloody thing after another.
Crew
- Screenplay: Alan Bennett
- Cinematography: Andrew Dunn
- Edited by: John Wilson
- Music: George Fenton
- Production design: John Beard
- Produced by: Kevin Loader, Pádraig Cusack, Damian Jones, Nicholas Hytner
Cast
- Richard Griffiths as Hector
- Stephen Campbell Moore as Irwin
- Dominic Cooper as Dakin
- Samuel Barnett as Posner
- James Corden as Timms
- Russell Tovey as Rudge
- Samuel Anderson as Crowther
- Jamie Parker as Scripps
- Andrew Knott as Lockwood
- Sacha Dhawan as Akhtar
Production
- Country: United Kingdom
- Language: English
- Studios: DNA Films, UK Film Council, BBC Two, National Theatre
- Budget: $4,000,000
- Box office: $13,401,952
- Themes: high school, northern england, scholarship, becoming an adult, education, exam, based on play or musical, oxford, cambridge, yorkshire
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