The History Boys [DVD]

£4.99 (new & sealed)

Comedy adapted from the play by Alan Bennett. Eight bright, funny history students in the mid 1980s are pursuing an undergraduate place at the country's two finest universities. Their headmaster is obsessed with breaking into the ranks of those schools that regularly send boys up to Oxford and Cambridge and enlists Irwin (Stephen Campbell Moore), a shrewd newcomer, to coach the boys into intellectual shape for the trials ahead.

Seduced though they are by the exam-busting bag of tricks offered by the temporary supply teacher, the boys are torn by their loyalty to the hugely eccentric, poetry-spouting English master Hector (Richard Griffiths) and the regular diet of nourishing facts and figures dispensed by Mrs Lintott (Frances de la Tour), their history mistress. As they prepare for the daunting admissions process, the journey of the History Boys becomes as much about how education works as where education leads.

Label: 20th Century Fox
Year: 2006
Runtime: 107
Rating: 15
Release Date: 5th March 2007
Resolution: 576i (PAL)
Screen Ratio: 1.85:1
Audio: English: Dolby Digital 5.1, , Note: Second DD 5.1 Track is: English Audio Descriptive
Languages: English
Subtitles: English SDH
Disks: 1
Extras: Interactive Menus
Enhanced WS tv
Biographies
Commentary: Nicholas Hytner (Director) and Alan Bennett (Writer)
Other Documentary: 'History Boys Around the World: The Tour Diaries', 'Pass it Along: The History Boys On Screen'
Region: Region 2
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Directors: Nicholas Hytner
Actors: Samuel Anderson, James Corden, Richard Griffiths, Samuel Barnett, Stephen Campbell Moore, Frances de la Tour, Andrew Knott, Russell Tovey, Jamie Parker, Dominic Cooper, Sacha Dhawan, Adrian Scarborough
Barcode: 5039036029759
Catalogue No.: 3249601000