The History Boys
dir. Nicholas Hytner
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The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in pursuit of an undergraduate place at Oxford or Cambridge. Bounced between their maverick English master, a young and shrewd teacher hired to up their test scores, a grossly out-numbered history teacher, and a headmaster obsessed with results, the boys attempt to pass.
Directed byNicholas Hytner
StarringRichard Griffiths, Stephen Campbell Moore, Dominic Cooper, Samuel Barnett, James Corden, Russell Tovey
Written byAlan Bennett
CinematographyAndrew Dunn
EditingJohn Wilson
MusicGeorge Fenton
The History Boys
2006 · R · 1h 49m
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The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in pursuit of an undergraduate place at Oxford or Cambridge. Bounced between their maverick English master, a young and shrewd teacher hired to up their test scores, a grossly out-numbered history teacher, and a headmaster obsessed with results, the boys attempt to pass.
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