

The History Boys
"History. It's just one bloody thing after another."
Overview
The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in pursuit of an undergraduate place at Oxford or Cambridge. Bounced between their maverick English master, a young and shrewd teacher hired to up their test scores, a grossly out-numbered history teacher, and a headmaster obsessed with results, the boys attempt to pass.
Movie Details
Budget
$4.0M
$4,000,000
Revenue
$13.4M
$13,401,952
Languages
English
Studio
DNA Films
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Key Crew

Alan Bennett
Screenplay

Allon Reich
Executive Producer

Damian Jones
Producer

Andrew Macdonald
Executive Producer

Nicholas Hytner
Producer

David M. Thompson
Executive Producer

Nicholas Hytner
Director
Cast

Richard Griffiths
Hector

Stephen Campbell Moore
Irwin

Dominic Cooper
Dakin

Samuel Barnett
Posner

James Corden
Timms

Russell Tovey
Rudge

Samuel Anderson
Crowther

Jamie Parker
Scripps

Andrew Knott
Lockwood

Sacha Dhawan
Akhtar

Clive Merrison
Headmaster

Frances de la Tour
Mrs. Lintott

Penelope Wilton
Mrs. Bibby

Adrian Scarborough
Wilkes

Georgia Taylor
Fiona

Patrick Godfrey
Sleeping Clergyman