Movie
The History Boys
Overview
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.
Details
- Release date
- 2006-10-02
- Runtime
- 109 min
- Genres
- Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- DNA Films, UK Film Council, BBC Two, National Theatre
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Original language
- EN
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
- Clive Merrison as Headmaster
- Frances de la Tour as Mrs. Lintott
Crew
- Nicholas Hytner - Director
- Alan Bennett - Screenplay
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