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The History Boys (2006)
6.6
Ratings: 6.6/10 from 12,135 users
Metascore:
74/100
Reviews: 152 user | 109 critic | 32 from Metacritic.com An unruly class of gifted and charming teenage boys are taught by two eccentric and innovative teachers, as their headmaster pushes for them all to get accepted into Oxford or Cambridge. Director:Nicholas Hytner |
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Nominated for 2 BAFTA Film Awards.
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Samuel Anderson | ... | |
| James Corden | ... | ||
| Stephen Campbell Moore | ... | ||
| Richard Griffiths | ... | ||
| Frances de la Tour | ... | ||
| Andrew Knott | ... | ||
| Russell Tovey | ... | ||
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Jamie Parker | ... | |
| Dominic Cooper | ... | ||
| Samuel Barnett | ... | ||
| Sacha Dhawan | ... | ||
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Clive Merrison | ... | |
| Penelope Wilton | ... | ||
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Adrian Scarborough | ... | |
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Georgia Taylor | ... | |
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Storyline
In 1980s Britain, a group of young men at Cutlers' Grammar School all have the brains, and the will to earn the chance of getting accepted in the finest universities in the nation, Oxford and Cambridge. Despite the fine teaching by excellent professionals like Mrs Lintott in history and the intellectually enthusiastic Hector in General Studies, the Headmaster is not satisfied. He signs on the young Irwin to polish the students' style to give them the best chance. In this mix of intellectualism and creative spirit that guides a rigorous preparation regime for that ultimate educational brass ring, the lives of the randy students and the ostensibly restrained faculty intertwine that would change their lives forever. Written by Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)
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History. It's just one bloody thing after another. See more »Parents Guide:
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Country:
UKLanguage:
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(Ireland) See more »Also Known As:
A Turma de História See more »Box Office
Budget:
£2,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
£794,672 (UK) (15 October 2006) (292 Screens)Gross:
$2,706,659 (USA) (25 February 2007)Company Credits
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Scripps: Have you looked at your handwriting recently? You're beginning to write like him!
[turns to look at Posner's essay]
Scripps: You're writin' like 'im an' all!
Posner: I am not! Dakin writes like him, I write like Dakin.
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Written by Harry Parr Davies & Phil Park
(c) Chappell Music Ltd.
Performed by The History Boys See more »
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Filmed in 30 days. See more »Goofs
Anachronisms: The locker room at the school has a passive Infra red detector clearly visible over one of the doors more recently used for intruder alarm systems. This type of device would not have been available until the early 1990s. See more »Quotes
[Scripps is taking the mick out of Dakin for trying to please Irwin too much]Scripps: Have you looked at your handwriting recently? You're beginning to write like him!
[turns to look at Posner's essay]
Scripps: You're writin' like 'im an' all!
Posner: I am not! Dakin writes like him, I write like Dakin.
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Crazy Credits
At the beginning of the film, the title - "The History Boys" - is taken letter by letter from random parts of an essay on the dissolution of the monasteries, a common history topic, Which the History Boys themselves write later on in the film. See more »Soundtracks
"Wish Me Luck (As You Wave Me Goodbye)"Written by Harry Parr Davies & Phil Park
(c) Chappell Music Ltd.
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