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The Story of a Boy's Hunger - Toast
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Title: Toast

Release Date: 30 Dec 2010

Runtime: 1h 36m

Genre: Drama, Comedy, History, Family

Director: Screen West Midlands, BBC Film, Ruby Films

Production Companies: Screen West Midlands, BBC Film, Ruby Films

Overview: 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.

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Average Vote: 6.605 (238 votes)

Cast

  • Nigel Slater: Freddie Highmore
  • Dad: Ken Stott
  • Mum: Victoria Hamilton
  • Young Nigel Slater: Oscar Kennedy
  • Mrs Potter: Helena Bonham Carter
  • Josh: Matthew McNulty
  • Fishmonger: Rob Jarvis
  • Ruby: Selina Cadell
  • Primary School Teacher: Amy Marston
  • Mrs. Adams: Marion Bailey
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