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Starter For 10 is a bittersweet comedy about loyalty, class, falling in love and the difference between knowledge and wisdom, following working-class student Brian Jackson (McAvoy) as he navigates his first year at Bristol University.
This is expertly crafted entertainment that follows all the beats of a traditional romantic comedy, but it's done with such sincerity that it's difficult to begrudge the odd descent into cliché.
September 22, 2007
Film4
Sharp jokes and heady nostalgia ensure it will at least please a wide audience.
Written by David Nicholls, adapting his own novel, and directed by Tom Vaughan, a British TV veteran making his feature debut, Starter for 10 clips along smartly.
March 16, 2007
ReelzChannel.com
A sweet, funny nostalgia trip back to the '80s for the anglophile in all of us.
[The film] bears many of the hallmarks of teen comedies, but also boasts virtues not generally associated with the genre, such as wit, class consciousness, multidimensional characters, and a penetrating intelligence.
Some nice performances and modest laughs highlight this amiable British comedy about a young man who goes off to Bristol University in the mid-'80s and does what young people naturally do when they go to college.