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Dec 30, 2010
1h 36m
★ 6.6

The Story of a Boy's Hunger

Overview

Young Nigel Slater has big culinary aspirations, even though all his mother knows how to make is toast. When his mother dies, relations grow strained between Nigel and his father, especially when he remarries a woman who wins his heart with a lemon meringue pie. Nigel enters culinary school, starts working in a pub, and finds himself competing with his stepmother - both in the kitchen and for his father's attention.

Genres

Drama
Comedy
History
Family

Production Companies

Screen West Midlands
BBC Film
Ruby Films

Cast

Freddie Highmore

Nigel Slater

Freddie Highmore

Ken Stott

Dad

Ken Stott

Victoria Hamilton

Mum

Victoria Hamilton

Oscar Kennedy

Young Nigel Slater

Oscar Kennedy

Helena Bonham Carter

Mrs Potter

Helena Bonham Carter

Matthew McNulty

Josh

Matthew McNulty

Rob Jarvis

Fishmonger

Rob Jarvis

Selina Cadell

Ruby

Selina Cadell

Amy Marston

Primary School Teacher

Amy Marston

Marion Bailey

Mrs. Adams

Marion Bailey

Tracey Wilkinson

Sheila

Tracey Wilkinson

Clare Higgins

Mavis

Clare Higgins

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