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.

Soundtrack

Featuring 15 songs, the soundtrack evokes England in the mid-'80s with songs by Kate Bush, The Buzzcocks, Psychedelic Furs and The Smiths. Five songs from The Cure are included -- "Boys Don't Cry," "Six Different Ways," "In Between Days," "Pictures of You" and "Love Song." The Starter for 10 original soundtrack also contains favorites by U.K. hitmakers including "Situation" by Yaz, "Long Hot Summer" by The Style Council, "Wonderful Life" by Black, "Ace of Spades" by Motorhead, "The Hurting" by Tears For Fears, and "Do It Clean" by Echo & The Bunnymen.

  1. In Between Days The Cure
  2. Love My Way Psychedelic Furs
  3. Wonderful Life Black
  4. Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've?) The Buzzcocks
  5. Six Different Ways The Cure
  6. Situation Yaz
  7. Ace of Spades Motorhead
  8. Love Song The Cure
  9. The Man With the Child In His Eyes Kate Bush
  10. Pictures of You The Cure
  11. Do It Clean Echo & The Bunnymen
  12. The Hurting Tears For Fears
  13. Boys Don't Cry The Cure
  14. Long Hot Summer The Style Council
  15. Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want The Smiths