Starter for 10

Comedy about Brian, a 1980s working class boy stumbling romantically and academically through his first year at Bristol University. He tries to achieve his lifelong ambition to appear on TV quiz show University Challenge, and falls in love with his teammate. Dir: Tom Vaughan., Comedy about Brian, a 1980s working class boy stumbling romantically and academically through his first year at Bristol University. He tries to achieve his lifelong ambition to appear on TV quiz show University Challenge, and falls in love with his teammate., Engaging charmer following an intelligent and witty working-class bloke (the wonderful James McAvoy) as he rubs elbows (and elbow patches) in 1985 with tweedy snobs at elite University of Bristol, where he searches for love and enlightenment. Rebecca Hall is delightful as a campus rabble rouser and Alice Eve is equally impressive as a brainy blonde for whom he falls. Director Tom Vaughan and screenwriter David Nicholls are both graduates of the same school depicted in the film., (2006) Comedy about Brian, a 1980s working class boy stumbling romantically and academically through his first year at Bristol University. He tries to achieve his lifelong ambition to appear on TV quiz show University Challenge, and falls in love with his teammate., Set in 1985, this movie revolves around Brian Jackson, a working-class lad from seaside Essex who gets a scholarship at the University of Bristol. The boy spent his childhood watching a college quiz show named “University Challenge”. Now, he is all set to use his knowledge to participate and win this quiz. He strays from his path, trying to fit in with the elite class of the university., A working-class English boy who has been fortunate enough to be accepted into a posh private university struggles to realize his lifelong dream while simultaneously winning the heart of the girl he loves in a romantic, bittersweet comedy directed by Tom Vaughan and starring James McAvoy, Rebecca Hall, and Charles Dance. The time is the mid-’80s, and the University Challenge phenomenon is sweeping through England. Despite his underprivileged background, Essex boy Brian Jackson (McAvoy) knows that he has what it takes to make it to the finals on one of the most popular programs in all of England. Upon being accepted into Bristol, the ambitious young student soon tries out for the school’s University Challenge team, and set the gears of his ultimate fantasy into motion. Effectively estranged from his single-parent mother (Catherine Tate) just for being accepted into the school, Brian soon gets set to cross yet another class line when he becomes smitten with his beautiful University Challenge teammate and attempts to woo her into his arms her with his formidable advanced general knowledge skills.