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Toast is a British film of genre Drama directed by S.J. Clarkson released in USA on 23 september 2011 with Helena Bonham Carter
Toast (2010)
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Add to a movie listToast (2010), a BBC One adaptation broadcast on 30 December 2010 and directed by S. J. Clarkson, is based on the autobiographical novel of the same name by the cookery writer Nigel Slater. The cast includes Freddie Highmore, Helena Bonham Carter, Ken Stott and Oscar Kennedy.
The film received a gala at the 2011 Berlin Film Festival. It was released in cinemas on 11 August 2011.
Synopsis
The Slaters of Wolverhampton are plagued with Mrs. Slater's (Victoria Hamilton) chronic debilitating asthma and her cooking limited to what comes in canned goods that she can heat in boiling water. Mr. Alan Slater (Ken Stott) is sick with worry and has a cantankerous personality. Nigel longs for a life that is more than a succession of canned-food dinners made from what can be heated in boiling water. When dinner is burned, the standard substitute of toast is always served. He loves toast, with the crunchy outside giving way to buttery softness inside. Despite her infrequent forays into cooking meals from scratch, his mother's attempts to improve her cooking change nothing before or after her death. His father continues in widowhood with the same cooking style and frequent dinners of toast. The experience brings Nigel to conclude that he is not liked. Nigel learns from a friend that the way in which he could attempt a better relationship with his father is to cook a meal for him.Actors
Helena Bonham Carter
(Mrs Potter)
Freddie Highmore
(Nigel Slater)
Ken Stott
(Dad)
Victoria Hamilton
(Mum)
Corrinne Wicks
(Secondary school teacher)
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