Project Detail

The History Boys

Name: The History Boys
Director: Nicholas Hytner
Genre: Literary Adaptation, Drama
Released: 2006
Duration: 109 mins

Synopsis

Based on Alan Bennett's hit National Theatre comedy-drama. An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys in 1980s Yorkshire are in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at Oxford or Cambridge. A maverick English teacher, a facts-orientated history teacher and a young and shrewd supply teacher are trying to help them, albeit with completely different teaching methods. The school is run by a slightly crazed headmaster obsessed with results and getting his school up the league tables. Given all this, can the boys achieve their Oxbridge goal and what can they learn about life, love, history, and film-endings along the way?

Details

Year: 2006
Type of project: Features
Running time: 109 mins
Format: 16mm
Director: Nicholas Hytner
Producer: David Thompson, Andrew Macdonald, Allon Reich, Charles Moore, Miles Ketley
Co-Producer: David Thompson, Andrew Macdonald, Allon Reich, Charles Moore, Miles Ketley
Editor: John Wilson
Screenwriter: Alan Bennett
Director of Photography: Andrew Dunn
Principal cast: Richard Griffiths, Frances De La Tour, Clive Merrison, Stephen Campbell Moore, Jamie Parker, Samuel Barnett, Dominic Cooper, Andrew Knott, Sacha Dhawan, Russell Tovey, James Corden, Samuel Anderson
Composer: George Fenton

Genre

Literary Adaptation Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

History Productions

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BBC Films

DNA Films

Sales Company

Distributed by 20th Century Fox

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