Rating: R
Genre:
Comedy Drama
Theatrical Release: 11/21/2006(USA
Release Date: 04/17/2007
SubTitles: English/Espanol/French
Dubbed: English/Espanol
Sound: DD5.1/DDS
Run Time: 112 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Adult Humor, Profanity, Sexual Situations
Distributor/Studio: 20th Century Fox
An unruly collection of clever but crass
Thatcher-era English high-school students seek to earn the scores needed to enroll in Oxford and Cambridge in director
Nicholas Hytner and screenwriter
Alan Bennett's screen adaptation of
Bennett's Tony-winning play.
The History Boys focuses on a group of eight students, all of them deemed by their overeager headmaster (
Clive Merrison) to be the best and the brightest. Though they've been coddled by their humanities-loving instructor,
Hector (
Richard Griffiths), and their acerbic history teacher,
Mrs. Lintott (
Frances de la Tour), the boys are deemed in need of additional tutoring; thus, the brash, young
Irwin (
Stephen Campbell Moore) is recruited to challenge them further. The subtle power games the boys used to their advantage with their previous tutors are of no use with
Irwin, whose wit borders on the callous. Meanwhile,
Irwin's presence -- and a hush-hush scandal -- forces all of the faculty members to reassess their position at the school.
Hytner shot
The History Boys shortly after the play's Broadway run, to capitalize on the enthusiasm and energy exhibited in the live shows.
~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
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