Toast
  • Studio: W2 Media
  • Release Date: Sep 23, 2011
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Metascore
57 out of 100

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5.1 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 14 Ratings

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  • Summary: No ordinary boy, Nigel, laps up cookbooks, spending all his time gazing longingly at the delights on offer in Percy Salt’s grocers. Nigel’s father, meanwhile, worries that there is something “wrong” with his son and the two find it difficult to connect. Nigel finds it far easier relating toating to Josh, the gardener, who teaches Nigel about the wonders of nature as they sit munching freshly picked radishes and pork pies. After Nigel’s mother dies, leaving Nigel and his father heartbroken, the two struggle on fuelled by cheese on toast, until a saucy new cleaner who makes lemon meringue pies to die for, (played with gusto by Helena Bonham Carter), arrives. She sets her sights on Nigel’s father, and cooking soon becomes the key weapon in the battle between then for his father’s affections. (Emerging Pictures)… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 10
  3. Negative: 1 out of 10
  1. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Gary Goldstein
    Oct 9, 2011
    80
    By turns sweet and tart, airy and rich and, above all, a thoroughly irresistible confection.
  2. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: J.R. Jones
    Sep 29, 2011
    70
    Sentimental, obvious, but well-nigh irresistible, this jubilant comedy equates England's bland cuisine with its sexual inhibition and suggests we could all use something a little more tasty (at dinnertime, that is).
  3. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Lou Lumenick
    Sep 23, 2011
    50
    Based on a memoir by Nigel Slater, a British celebrity chef who makes a cameo appearance, Toast also charts the budding chef's growing interest in hunky, scantily clad guys. Be warned: Some of the regional British accents would benefit from subtitles.
  4. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Ty Burr
    Oct 13, 2011
    38
    I could pile on the cooking metaphors until you cried "uncle," but the fact remains that there's a very good movie in here that its makers have failed to bring off.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 5
  3. Negative: 2 out of 5
  1. daiyuanamanda
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. A joyful movie with many sweet desserts~~ When you upset, watch this movie ,you'll be cheerful~~ In this world,Tow things can save us ,One is Love,Another one is Delicious food~… Expand
  2. RunningOnion
    4
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  3. Tokyochuchu
    4
    Toast would be a descent movie if it wasn't for the fact that the main protagonist is an elitist, mean spirited swine who loves nothing more than to taunt and provoke his 'evil' stepmother. Speaking of 'evil' stepmothers, this particular one commits the horrific sin of being a competitive cook... Wow. That's something that truly deserves relentlessly horrible treatment and finally ex-communication from the 'hero'. What a git!… Expand
  4. CitizenCharlie
    2
    Here is how I imagine this hypothetical sequence of events. Screenwriter Lee Hall, best known for the Billy Elliot script, sat down and read Nigel Slaterâ… Expand

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