Starter for 10

2006

English

6.7

♡ 63

90%

Tom Vaughan Director

Alice Eve as Alice Harbinson

James McAvoy as Brian Jackson

Charles Dance as Michael Harbinson

Benedict Cumberbatch as Patrick Watts

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.