The History Boys

(2006)

★ 6.6 IMDb · 222 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 2006

Runtime: 109 мин

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Nicholas Hytner

Cast: Ричард Гриффитс, Стивен Кэмпбелл Мур, Доминик Купер, Samuel Barnett, Джеймс Корден, Рассел Тови, Samuel Anderson, Jamie Parker, Эндрю Нотт, Саша Дхаван

Plot

The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in pursuit of an undergraduate place at Oxford or Cambridge. Bounced between their maverick English master, a young and shrewd teacher hired to up their test scores, a grossly out-numbered history teacher, and a headmaster obsessed with results, the boys attempt to pass.

In 1980s Britain, a group of young men at Cutlers' Grammar School all have the brains, and the will to earn the chance of getting accepted in the finest universities in the nation, Oxford and Cambridge. Despite the fine teaching by excellent professionals like Mrs. Dorothy Lintott (Frances de la Tour) in history and the intellectually enthusiastic Mr. Hector (Richard Griffiths) in General Studies, the Headmaster (Clive Merrison) is not satisfied. He signs on the young Irwin (Stephen Campbell Moore) to polish the students' style to give them the best chance. In this mix of intellectualism and creative spirit that guides a rigorous preparation regime for that ultimate educational brass ring, the lives of the randy students and the ostensibly restrained faculty intertwine that would change their lives forever.