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66% Critic Match
Toast
“The Story of a Boy's Hunger”
6.6 / 10• 2010• 1h 36m•NR• English
DramaComedyHistoryFamily
Storyline
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.
Cast & Crew
Freddie Highmore
Nigel Slater
Lead
Ken Stott
Dad
Victoria Hamilton
Mum
Oscar Kennedy
Young Nigel Slater
Helena Bonham Carter
Mrs Potter
Matthew McNulty
Josh
Rob Jarvis
Fishmonger
Selina Cadell
Ruby
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. SJ Clarkson's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Toast is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
