Starter For 10 (2007)


James McAvoy            Brian Jackson
Rebecca Hall            Rebecca Epstein
Alice Eve               Alice Harbinson
Charles Dance           Michael Harbinson
Benedict Cumberbatch    Patrick
Dominic Cooper          Spencer
Mark Gatiss             Bamber Gascoigne
Catherine Tate (II)     Julie Jackson
James Corden            Tone
Lindsay Duncan          Rose Harbinson
Guy Henry               Dr. Morrison
John Henshaw            Des
Elaine Tan              Lucy Chang
Simon Woods             Josh
Joseph Friend           Young Brian

Directed by:            Tom Vaughan
Produced by:            Sam Mendes, Steven Shareshian, Nathalie Marciano


Brian Jackson, a working-class student from Essex navigating his first year at Bristol University, 
has a lot to prove. While his hometown mates worry about him turning into a poncey wanker, Brian's 
biggest concern is making the team for the long-running British television quiz show University 
Challenge. Amidst Tarts & Vicars dances, anti-Apartheid rallies, minging dorm rooms and puffs of 
marijuana smoke, Brian also finds himself romantically torn between two very different co-eds: the 
ultra-fit, University Challenge teammate, blonde bomshell Alice, and thoughtful, politically-conscious 
Rebecca Epstein.

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In 1985, against the backdrop of Thatcherism, Brian Jackson enrolls in the University of Bristol, a 
scholarship boy from seaside Essex with a love of knowledge for its own sake and a childhood spent 
watching "University Challenge," a college quiz show. At Bristol he tries out for the Challenge team 
and falls under the spell of Alice, a lovely blond with an extensive sexual past. He's smitten, and 
he carelessly manages to hurt the feelings of Rebecca Epstein, a friend whose politics and wit he 
admires. The Challenge finale is coming up; maybe Brian can redeem himself and still avoid being a 
prat.