 Starter for 10
Starring: James McAvoy, Ian Bonar, Dominic Cooper, James Corden, Benedict Cumberbatch, Charles Dance, Alice Eve, Raj Ghatak, Rebecca Hall
Directed by: Tom Vaughan
Screenplay by: David Nicholls
Release Date: February 16, 2007
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for sexual content, language and a scene of drug use.
Studio: Picturehouse
 Domestic: $216,839 (12.5%)
Foreign: $1,519,555 (87.5%)
Total: $1,736,394 (Worldwide)
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 Set in the mid-Eighties, "Starter for Ten" is a romantic comedy about a working-class student (James McAvoy), 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, he falls in love with his beautiful teammate (Alice Eve) and forms a plan to win her heart through his advanced general knowledge skills. "Starter for Ten" is a bitter-sweet comedy about loyalty, class, falling in love and the difference between knowledge and wisdom.
“Ever since I can remember, I’ve wanted to be clever,” Brian Jackson confesses in voice over at the start of Sarter For 10. A working-class student from Essex navigating his first year at Bristol University, Brian (James McAvoy) 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. (The game show, which began in 1962 and is something like the UK’s answer to Jeopardy, pits four-member teams from posh universities against each other. “Starter” questions, worth ten points each, give the film its title.)
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