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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 0024543425199
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 17, 2007
Running Time: 112 minutes
Sales Rank: 4879
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: 2006
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Product Description:
From award-winning playwright Alan Bennett (The Madness of King George) comes this delightfully witty comedy of eight boisterous-yet-talented schoolboys hoping to gain admittance to England's most prestigious universities. They're aided on their quest by two teachers a shrewd young upstart and an inspiring old eccentric whose opposing philosophies challenge the boys to confront the true meaning of education and the relative values of happiness and success.Adapted from the original Tony Award winning play and starring the original Tony Award winning cast The History Boys is an engaging thought-provoking and wickedly funny look at history the pursuit of knowledge and the utter randomness of life.System Requirements:Runtime: 112 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: R UPC: 024543425199 Manufacturer No: 2242519
Amazon.com:
The play's the thing in The History Boys. Unlike most stage-to-screen transitions, Nicholas Hytner assembled the entire original cast for the celluloid version of Alan Bennett's award-winning work. (The two previously joined forces for The Madness of King George.) As in Hytner's National Theatre production, a group of Sheffield sixth-form boys, Timms (James Corden), Lockwood (Andrew Knott), Rudge (Russell Tovey), Scripps (Jamie Parker), Crowther (Samuel Anderson), Akhtar (Sacha Dhawan), Posner (Samuel Barnett), and Dakin (Dominic Cooper)--the latter two standouts--spend an extra term in 1983 preparing for their Oxbridge exams. Hector (Richard Griffiths) and Dorothy Lintott (Frances de la Tour) are their regular instructors (both performances garnered Tony Awards), while Irwin (Stephen Campbell Moore, Bright Young Things) is the enigmatic new history teacher. The Headmaster (Clive Merrison) brings him on board to lend the precocious lads 'polish.' Irwin, however, is more interested in encouraging them to think creatively--not merely to recite facts. The boys just want to get into Oxford and Cambridge. If that means withstanding the occasional grope from Hector and harsh word from Irwin, so be it. In the end, which boy gets in where isn't insignificant, but Bennett's greater concern is what they learn along the way. If Hytner isn't always successful in reconciling the intellectual with the more earthbound, The History Boys is one of the funniest films yet about Britain's educational system--and education in general. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - The Hysterical Boys
I just watched this movie and loved it! If you're looking for bullets, blood or nudity then look elsewhere. If the subject of homosexuality bothers you then you might also be offended by this film.
If however, you are captivated by witty dialogue(there is some swearing along with it), an intelligent script, and can decipher English accents (there are subtitles available), then this might be a movie for you. There is plenty of action but it takes the form of verbal jousting.
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Rating: - Young minds and all that...3-3.5 stars
In the thoughtful and smart, yet somewhat unsuccessful film The History Boys there is a wonderful scene in which two of the characters, Posner (a would be candidate for Oxbridge)and Hector (the immense and immensely complicated and flawed teacher) talk about what makes a particular Hardy poem great. This scene almost does for teaching and poetry what (in Amadeus) Salieri's mental reading of Mozart's compositions did for classical music. It's a quietly powerful and moving scene and made me want to ... Read More
Rating: - Another brilliant adaptation from a brilliant play
Sometimes you just wonder why some adaptations from some plays are great and some are not. The History Boys is a very good example of a brilliant adaptation. Similar to Proof, The History Boys moved a single location play (sort of, although in the original play there are video footages projected to expand the space for imagination) to a multiple location film production but kept all the essence of the play.
The story is about a group of Oxbridge (Oxford & Cambridge) hopefuls at their ... Read More
Rating:  - Better on the stage?
I bought this DVD on sale, not knowing anything about the movie or the play. It was moderately entertaining (I'd have given it 2.5 stars if Amazon had let me).
There were two things that really stuck out as awkward and just plain *bad* about this movie:
#1. The dialogue. When you see people dressed in the costumes of Shakespeare's era, you expect them to speak a little bit like you might want to have a glossary or Cole's Notes on hand to interpret what they're saying. When you ... Read More
Rating: - THE MOST ENJOYABLE FILM I'VE SEEN THIS YEAR!
THE HISTORY BOYS is the most enjoyable film I have seen this year. There were about 3 mins., late in the film, that made me somewhat uncomfortable (they deal with a planned sexual relationship between a student and a teacher), but otherwise I loved it. The script is amazingly witty and wise, and the acting is first rate throughout! One very funny scene is in French, and I was surprised to discover how much I remember from 3 courses I had long, long, LONG ago. (Using the DVD's subtitles, which show the French ... Read More
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