Toast (film)
| Movie | |
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| German title | toast |
| Original title | toast |
| Country of production | GB |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| length | 96 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | SJ Clarkson |
| script | Lee Hall |
| production | Nicole Finnan |
| music | Matt Biffa |
| camera | Balazs Bolygo |
| cut | Liana Del Giudice |
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Toast is a 2010 British television film directed by SJ Clarkson . The screenplay was written by Lee Hall based on an autobiographical novel by well-known English cookbook author Nigel Slater from 2004.
Freddie Highmore plays 15-year-old Nigel Slater, Helena Bonham Carter his stepmother and Ken Stott his father. The television film ran on December 30, 2010 in the BBC's 1st program and was shown in a gala performance at the 2011 Berlinale . The film then opened in German cinemas on August 11, 2011.
action
Nigel Slater is very interested in cooking and enjoys reading cookbooks under the covers. His mother ( Victoria Hamilton ), who is chronically ill with asthma, is not very interested in the preparation of food and only gets a toast . As her illness worsens, the relationship between father ( Ken Stott ) and son also worsens .
When Nigel's mother dies of her serious illness, his father begins to go out in the evenings with the married cleaning lady Joan Potter ( Helena Bonham Carter ). She is a wonderful cook and enchants Mr. Slater with her grandiose lemon meringue cake. The two begin a relationship and soon move to the country with Nigel. The boy doesn't like his father's new life partner at all.
Nigel finds solace in his school's housekeeping lessons and uses his steadily improving cooking skills to get his father's attention - which, of course, Mrs. Potter doesn't like at all. A “cooking war” breaks out between the two over the love of Nigel's father. Mr. Slater is putting on more and more weight because of the good food and also becoming more irritable. Nigel takes a job as a chef in the village pub to avoid Mrs. Potter and falls in love with the pub owner's son. This love ends abruptly when he leaves the village.
When Mr. Slater dies of a heart attack because of Mrs. Potter's good meal, Nigel can't hold on anymore and he packs his bags to go to London. As Nigel leaves, he thanks him for saying goodbye to the stunned Mrs. Potter. Arriving in London, Nigel receives an offer to start in the kitchen of the Savoy Hotel (the hotel's chef is played by the real Nigel Slater ).
Reviews
“A solidly staged comedy [...] that unfolds against the background of the class conflict between the proletariat and the petty bourgeoisie as a drama of a child who feels unloved. While the film nostalgically evokes the “Good Old England” of the 1960s, it suffers from the inconsistent figure drawing. Thanks to a gorgeous actress, the "bad" stepmother becomes the centerpiece of the film. "
Web links
- Toast in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for toast . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2011 (PDF; test number: 128 152 K).
- ↑ Toast. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 8, 2017 .