Toast

(2010)

★ 6.6 IMDb · 270 votes

Genres: Drama, Comedy, History, Family

Year: 2010

Runtime: 96 мин

Country: United Kingdom

Director: С. Дж. Кларксон

Cast: Фредди Хаймор, Кен Стотт, Виктория Хэмилтон, Oscar Kennedy, Хелена Бонем Картер, Мэттью МакНалти, Роб Джарвис, Selina Cadell, Amy Marston, Marion Bailey

Plot

Young Nigel Slater has big culinary aspirations, even though all his mother knows how to make is toast. When his mother dies, relations grow strained between Nigel and his father, especially when he remarries a woman who wins his heart with a lemon meringue pie. Nigel enters culinary school, starts working in a pub, and finds himself competing with his stepmother - both in the kitchen and for his father's attention.

Wolverhampton,1967: nine year old Nigel Slater loves his mother though she is a hopeless cook, her finest offering being toast whilst he has great culinary aspirations. When she dies of asthma Nigel is left with a distant father but worse is to come when the 'common' Mrs. Joan Potter arrives as the Slaters' cleaner. Nigel fears, rightly, that her aim is to be the next Mrs. Slater and soon he has a new stepmother and is whisked away to the country. Joan is, however, a superb cook but this only makes for rivalry as Nigel, the only boy in his cookery class at secondary school, competes with her to find the way to his father's heart. A weekend job in a pub kitchen introduces Nigel to an older boy, another great cook and gay like himself, who gives him the confidence and inspiration to leave home after his father's death and head for the hotel kitchens of London.