Starter for 10 2006

Directed by Tom Vaughan | Starring: James McAvoy, Dominic Cooper, Simon Woods, Catherine Tate

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.