
ROM-COMING OF AGE McAvoy (second from left) comes up with answers as a contestant on a British quiz show and questions about love in Starter for Ten
Giles Keyte
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Limited Release: Feb 23, 2007; Rated: PG-13; Length: 96 Minutes; Genres: Comedy, Romance; With: Charles Dance and James McAvoy
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As a working-class university student in the 1980s who makes a few redeemable coming-of-age mistakes in love and life (and plays on the Jeopardy!-like game show from which Starter for Ten takes its title terminology), James McAvoy uses some of the same naïf-with-charm muscles he exercised in The Last King of Scotland. There's a tidiness and affection to this British homage to John Hughes movies and the youthful error of first going for the wrong, hurtful girl instead of the right, patient one. B
Posted Feb 21, 2007
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