The History Boys
“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.
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Cast
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Richard Griffiths
Hector
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
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Stephen Campbell Moore
Irwin
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War of the Worlds
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Dominic Cooper
Dakin
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Captain America: The First Avenger
Preacher
Samuel Barnett
Posner
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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Penny Dreadful
James Corden
Timms
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Peter Rabbit
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Russell Tovey
Rudge
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Quantico
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Samuel Anderson
Crowther
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Jamie Parker
Scripps
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1917
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Andrew Knott
Lockwood
Known for
The Secret Garden
Leonardo
Sacha Dhawan
Akhtar
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Marvel's Iron Fist
The Great
Clive Merrison
Headmaster
Known for
The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns
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Frances de la Tour
Mrs. Lintott
Known for
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
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Nicholas Hytner Director · Alan Bennett Screenplay George Fenton Composer
Worldwide gross $13M · Budget $4M · United States release October 2, 2006
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Budget
$4,000,000
Worldwide gross
$13,401,952
Gross vs. budget
3.4×
Production
DNA Films
Production
UK Film Council
Production
BBC Two
Production
National Theatre
Production
BBC Film
Studio · Production
United Kingdom
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · October 2, 2006
Theatrical
United Kingdom · October 13, 2006
Theatrical
Austria
June 8, 2007 · Digital
Ireland
October 13, 2006 · Digital
Japan
March 6, 2009 · Digital
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