Starter for 10Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | melodrama, comedy |
Year | 2006 |
Country | United Kingdom , USA |
Premiere | |
Box | in world | $1 736 394 | USA | $216 839 | In other countries | $1 519 555 |
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Duration | 01:32 |
Storyline
In 1985, against the backdrop of Thatcherism, Brian Jackson enrolls in the University of Bristol, a scholarship boy from seaside Essex with a love of knowledge for its own sake and a childhood spent watching University Challenge, a college quiz show. At Bristol he tries out for the Challenge team and falls under the spell of Alice, a lovely blond with an extensive sexual past.