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MPAA Rating: R
Director: Nicholas Hytner
Genre: Period Film, Psychological Drama, Coming-of-Age, Ensemble Film, Comedy Drama
Release Date: November 21, 2006 (USA
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Summary:
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... Full Summary >>

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Cast:
Richard Griffiths - (Hector)
Frances de la Tour - (Dorothy Lintott)
Stephen Campbell Moore - (Irwin)
Samuel Barnett - (Posner)
Dominic Cooper - (Dakin)
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Review:
The History Boys was shot over five weeks after the close of the original West End run of the play, and while there is stray evidence of its hurried creation and theatrical origins, the appeal that led to its success is largely preserved. In listing ... Continue >>

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