2006 · drama · music · coming-of-age
The History Boys
Directed by Nicholas Hytner1h 49m2006
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.
Our read: The History Boys (2006) reads as a warm, measured, grounded drama · music · coming-of-age entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, measured, gentle drama / music, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- measured
- gentle
- intimate
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