The History Boys
- Released on
Drama
•- Runtime
- 109 mins
(193 votes)
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.
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.
Cast
- Richard Griffiths
- Stephen Campbell Moore
- Dominic Cooper
- Samuel Barnett
- James Corden
- Russell Tovey
- Samuel Anderson
- Jamie Parker
- Andrew Knott
- Sacha Dhawan
- Clive Merrison
- Frances de la Tour
- Penelope Wilton
- Adrian Scarborough
- Georgia Taylor
- Patrick Godfrey
Director
- Nicholas Hytner
Producers
- Kevin Loader
- Pádraig Cusack
- Damian Jones
- Nicholas Hytner
Screenwriter
- Alan Bennett
