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The History Boys (15)   109 mins   35mm

"Meet The Boys Who Are Making History!"

Adapted from Alan Bennett's award-winning play, The History Boys is set in an all-boys grammar school in Sheffield in 1983 and tells the story of an unruly class of bright, funny, mostly working-class history students in pursuit of an undergraduate place at Oxford or Cambridge. Bounced between their maverick English master (Richard Griffiths), a young and shrewd teacher hired to up their test scores (Stephen Campbell Moore), a grossly out-numbered female history teacher (Frances de la Tour), and a headmaster obsessed with results (Clive Merrison), the boys attempt to sift through it all to pass the daunting university admissions process. Their journey becomes as much about how education works, as it is about where education leads.

"Alan Bennett's brilliant History Boys makes a triumphant crossover from stage to screen ."  Philip French

"A first class lesson in witty, inspirational filmmaking from the very best of British talent."  Channel 4 Film

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Last modified: 20-Jun-2008

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