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The History Boys (2006)

Film · 2006 · 109 min · R · Drama

History. It's just one bloody thing after another.

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.

Directed by Nicholas Hytner

Starring Richard Griffiths, Stephen Campbell Moore, Dominic Cooper, Samuel Barnett, James Corden, Russell Tovey, Samuel Anderson, Jamie Parker

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In cinemas2 October 2006
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First release anywhere2 October 2006

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