The History Boys (2006)

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Love the Hard Way

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Studio: Fox Searchlight Pictures

Rating: R

Release Date: Nov 21, 2006

Running Time: 104 mins.

Country Of Origin: United Kingdom

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: Richard Griffiths, Clive Merrison, Frances De La Tour, Stephen Campbell Moore, Dominic Cooper, Sacha Dhawan, Andrew Knott, Samuel Barnett, Russell Tovey, Jamie Parker

director: Nicholas Hytner, Nicholas Hytner, Nick Starr

The History Boys

Centers on an unruly class of bright, funny teenage boys in pursuit of sex, sport and a college degree. Bounced between their maverick English teacher, a young and shrewd professor hired to up their test scores, a grossly out-numbered history teacher, and a headmaster obsessed with results, 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.

Thought-provoking and well-written, Alan Bennett's Tony-winning play about life, love, and education in 1980s Yorkshire jumps to the big screen in The History Boys.

Story

Mixing the boys-will-be-boys camaraderie of Dead Poets Society with the veddy British tang of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and Goodbye, Mr. Chips, The History Boys follows eight working-class English grammar school students vying for competitive scholarships to Cambridge and Oxford in 1983. Challenged and mentored by two very…