M als

Starring
Richard Griffiths, Stephen Campbell Moore, Andrew Knott

Director
Nicholas Hytner

Year
2006

Genre
Comedy Drama

Synopsis
Through biting wit, rapid-fire dialogue, music, song, vintage movie scenes, impassioned debates and moments of stark emotional truth, this is the story of an unruly bunch of sharp, talented but rough-edged British schoolboys engaged in a battle to get to Oxford and Cambridge.

Richard Griffiths stars as the maverick literature teacher Hector, who thinks himself a fool yet breaks all the rules in trying to help the boys discover their own wisdom. Stephen Campbell Moore stars as the new teacher, Irwin, a recent Oxford graduate who has been hired by the ambitious Headmaster to whip the boys into exam-ready shape.

As both teachers vie for the boys' loyalty, minds, and even hearts, they impart vital lessons and reveal their own human flaws.

TRIVIA:
The film is based on the award winning play by Alan Bennett, which ran at the National Theatre in London from May 2004 until April 2005; many of the extras in the film are also members of staff at the National Theatre in London (where Nicholas Hytner is the artistic director) who were invited to visit the set and have the chance of appearing in the finished film; Richard Griffiths' character rides a Velocette motorcycle; the story is set in the early 1980s because shortly after this Oxford and Cambridge changed their entrance system and abolished the seventh-term post-A-level entrance exams.

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