Starter for 10

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Starring James McAvoy, Alice Eve, and Rebecca Hall
Executive Producers Sam Mendes, Steven Shareshian, Nathalie Marciano, and Michelle Chydzik Sowa
Producers Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman, and Pippa Harris
Directed by Tom Vaughan
Screenplay by David Nicholls Based on his book
HBO Films Presents in association with BBC Films a Playtone Picture in Association with Neal Street Productions

From Playtone and producers Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman and Pippa Harris, Starter For 10 is a romantic comedy set in the mid-eighties about a working-class kid struggling to make his way in the rarified world of an upper-class British University. On his way to achieving his long-held ambition to appear on the British TV Quiz Show, University Challenge, he falls in love with his beautiful teammate and forms a plan to win her heart through his advanced general knowledge skills. Starter For 10 is a bittersweet comedy about loyalty, class, falling in love and the difference between knowledge and wisdom.