Toast (Film)

Toast is a British television film directed by S. J. Clarkson from the year 2010. The screenplay was written by Lee Hall to an autobiographical novel by the well-known English cookbook author Nigel Slater from the year 2004.

Freddie Highmore plays the fifteen year old Nigel Slater, Helena Bonham Carter, his stepmother and Ken Stott his father. The television movie was released on 30 December 2010 at the first program of the BBC and was shown at the Berlin Film Festival 2011 in a gala performance. On 11 August 2011, the film then ran in the German cinemas.

Action

Nigel Slater is very interested in cooking and loves to read under the covers cookbooks. His chronic asthmatic mother (Victoria Hamilton) is not very interested in the preparation of food and gets just a toast out. While aggravated her illness, the relationship between father ( Ken Stott ) and son is also getting worse.

As Nigel's mother dies due to their severe illness, his father, with the freshly divorced charwoman Joan Potter (Helena Bonham Carter ) go out at night begins. She is a wonderful cook and " charmed " Mr. Slater with their grandiose lemon meringue pie. The two begin a relationship and soon move together with Nigel in the country. The boy dislike the new life partner of his father.

Nigel finds solace in the housekeeping hours of his school and uses his constantly improving cooking skills to get his father's attention - which of course Mrs. Potter do not like. It flares up between the two a "Chef War " for the love of Nigel's father. Mr. Slater puts eating good food always more weight and will still irritable. Nigel takes a job as a cook at the pub in the village to go to Mrs. Potter in the kitchen out of the way and falls in love with the son of the landlady. This love ends abruptly when leaving the village.

When Mr. Slater eating good food from Mrs. Potter died of a heart attack, Nigel holds nothing more and he packs his bags to go to London. When Nigel sets out, he thanked the adoption of the astonished Mrs. Potter. In London arrived Nigel receives an offer to start in the kitchen of the Savoy Hotel. ( The hotel's chef is played by the real Nigel Slater. )

Reviews

" Solid staged comedy that unfolds the drama of an unloved sentient child in the context of class conflict between the proletariat and petty bourgeoisie. While the film nostalgically the " Good Old England " of the 1960s conjures up, he suffers from the low -voiced figure drawing; thanks to a gorgeous actress is the "evil" stepmother to the heart of the film. "

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