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  • 2011
  • Not Rated
  • Emerging Pictures
  • 1 h 36 m
  • 2011
  • Not Rated
  • Emerging Pictures
  • 1 h 36 m
Toast

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 to Josh, the gardener, who teaches Nigel about th...

Directed By: S.J. Clarkson

Written By: Lee Hall, Nigel Slater

  • 2011
  • Not Rated
  • Emerging Pictures
  • 1 h 36 m
  • 2011
  • Not Rated
  • Emerging Pictures
  • 1 h 36 m

Toast

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 10 Critic Reviews
57
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 19 User Ratings
5.3
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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 to Josh, the gardener, who teaches Nigel about th...

Directed By: S.J. Clarkson

Written By: Lee Hall, Nigel Slater

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 10 Critic Reviews
57
50% Positive
5 Reviews
40% Mixed
4 Reviews
10% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 10 Critic Reviews
57
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40% Mixed
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10% Negative
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80
Oct 9, 2011
By turns sweet and tart, airy and rich and, above all, a thoroughly irresistible confection.
By Gary Goldstein FULL REVIEW
70
Sep 22, 2011
Ms. Bonham Carter's hearty performance makes Mrs. Potter almost lovable. You may laugh at her garishness, but you applaud her pluck and stamina.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW

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5.3
47% Positive
9 Ratings
32% Mixed
6 Ratings
21% Negative
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5.3
47% Positive
9 Ratings
32% Mixed
6 Ratings
21% Negative
4 Ratings

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daiyuanamanda
Dec 10, 2012
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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Tokyochuchu
Sep 1, 2012
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!
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70
Sep 19, 2011
Like the lemon meringue pies and shrimp cocktails it features throughout, Brit comedy-drama Toast is tasty, hearty and rather conventional.
By Leslie Felperin FULL REVIEW
50
Sep 23, 2011
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.
By Lou Lumenick FULL REVIEW
50
Sep 20, 2011
Slater's book was evidently an ax-grinder, and the resulting film, directed with tone-deaf comic rhythm by S.J. Clarkson, shows pity and bemusement for the people raising Nigel but rarely human interest in them. More damning still, even the food looks ugly.
By Nick Pinkerton FULL REVIEW
40
Sep 20, 2011
The first-person source material might explain the one-sided account of the struggle, but the film is crippled by its underhanded treatment of Bonham Carter's character, including a healthy dose of unmitigated middle-class snobbery.
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38
Oct 13, 2011
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.
By Ty Burr FULL REVIEW
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RunningOnion
Oct 20, 2011
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CitizenCharlie
Oct 11, 2011
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
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nohobobo
Jan 31, 2012
Wow. How could anyone give this a good review? Gary Goldstein, etc. should get their heads checked. The relationships between the characters are completely underdeveloped and contradictory, I had no empathy for anyone in the movie. How could characters based on real people be so one-dimensional and phony? Nigel is an unlikable brat, the father is a complete cartoon character, and the mother is an unloving zombie. My wife cries for almost every movie, but not for this supposed "tear jerker".
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Production Company BBC Film, Ruby Films, Screen West Midlands
Release Date Sep 23, 2011
Duration 1 h 36 m
Rating Not Rated
Genres
Tagline The story of a boy's hunger.
Website http://www.w2media.com/toast/
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