Starter for 10 (film)

Starter foris a 2006 British comedydrama film directed by Tom Vaughan from a screenplay by David Nicholls, adapted from his own novel Starter for Ten. The film stars James McAvoy as a university student who wins a place on a University Challenge quiz team. It premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in September 2006, and was released in the UK and Ireland onNovember 2006, and in Canada and the US onFebruary 2007.

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