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TOAST

By S. J. CLARKSON

MFA+ FILMDISTRIBUTION - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, GERMANY

unknown - Completed 2010

TOAST is the ultimate nostalgia trip through the foodstuffs of the 60ties and the stuff food is about. Based on the bittersweet story of food writer Nigel Slater’s childhood, TOAST is a delicious recollection of the tastes and smells that a young boy associates with his journey into adulthood.

- Year of production
- 2010
- Genres
- unknown
- Countries
- UNITED KINGDOM
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Duration
- 96 mn
- Director(s)
- S. J. CLARKSON
- Writer(s)
- Lee HALL, Nigel SLATER
- Cast
- Helena BONHAM CARTER, Ken STOTT, Freddie HIGHMORE, Victoria HAMILTON
- Producer(s)
- Faye WARD (Ruby Films)
- Synopsis
- Based on the award-winning book by Nigel Slater, TOAST tells the story of how the young Nigel falls in love with food as a little boy. Growing up in a home when everything tinned is best Nigel craves real food. He loves cookbooks and gazes longingly at the delights on display in the village shop. When his mother dies he and his father are heartbroken but time heals and the ample charms and lemon meringue pies of the new cleaner, Mrs Potter, quickly bewitch Nigel‘s father. To Nigel‘s even greater horror, Mrs Potter moves in and the three move to the country. The only silver lining is the Domestic Science Class in his new school - Nigel can finally shine and when Nigel lands a job in the kitchen of his local pub his eyes are opened to a world of opportunity. But Mrs Potter won’t give up here supremacy in the kitchen without a fight... Only when his father dies, overfed by the relentless Mrs. Potter, is Nigel able to strike out on his own and head for a culinary future in London...