Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Freddie HighmoreNigel Slater
- Ken StottDad
- Victoria HamiltonMum
- Oscar KennedyYoung Nigel Slater
- Helena Bonham CarterMrs Potter
- Matthew McNultyJosh
- Rob JarvisFishmonger
- Selina CadellRuby
- Amy MarstonPrimary School Teacher
- Marion BaileyMrs. Adams
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ChatdiMuse‘No matter how bad things get it’s impossible not to love someone who’s made you toast, once you’ve been through that crusty surface to the soft dough underneath and tasted the warm salty butter you’re lost forever” I just finished watching the film Toast (2010) dir. S.J Clarkson and based on the autobiographical novel of cook writer Nigel Slater. At first it started off fresh and funny but as it developed one started feeling angst for something true to happen. The characters do not some real, they all seem disconnected from each other, lacking in depth and authenticity. On this quote above, I believe the only real love displayed in the movie is Little Freddie’s devotion for food, the love of toast not the one who made it. He seemed to display more affection to his numb mother until after her death, the dad is a foolish bland character, the maid Joan Patter played by Helena Bonham Carter, who is portrayed as the villain of the story is not really all bad, just a lonely commonplace woman who knows a bit too much nitty gritty details about cleaning products. She only longs to start a home working hard to win affections of stubborn Freddie and father through her impeccable cooking skills, based on the cliche “the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach” Even Freddie’s homosexual affair when he’s older seems phony and disappointing. It seems everyone in the end stays misunderstood and the stories unresolved, it is cartoonish and just a poor written movie. The 60’s themed lively pictures shot in West Midlands of England countryside were beautiful, which were the best part of the film. That is all.Created on 11/5/2024
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