After joining university, Brian Jackson, a young smart and hardworking guy from a working class, who is so genius and uses his skills in achieving success at school, but when he falls in love with two young girls, his life turns upside down.
Written by David Nicholls, adapting his own novel, and directed by Tom Vaughan, a British TV veteran making his feature debut, Starter for 10 clips along smartly.
ReelzChannel.com
August 26, 2008
A sweet, funny nostalgia trip back to the '80s for the anglophile in all of us.
[The film] bears many of the hallmarks of teen comedies, but also boasts virtues not generally associated with the genre, such as wit, class consciousness, multidimensional characters, and a penetrating intelligence.
Some nice performances and modest laughs highlight this amiable British comedy about a young man who goes off to Bristol University in the mid-'80s and does what young people naturally do when they go to college.