From Playtone and producers Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman and Pippa Harris, Starter For 10 is a romantic comedy set in the mid-eighties about a working-class kid struggling to make his way in the rarified world of an upper-class British University. On his way to achieving his long-held ambition to appear on the British TV Quiz Show, University Challenge, Brian Jackson (MacAvoy) falls in love with a beautiful teammate and forms a plan to win her heart through his advanced general knowledge skills. Starter For 10 is a bittersweet comedy about loyalty, class, falling in love and the difference between knowledge and wisdom.
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