Toast

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Toast

2011,

1h 36m,

Comedy/

Drama/

Romance

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61%

33 Reviews

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52%

1,000+ Ratings

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52%

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Young Nigel Slater (Freddie Highmore) has big culinary aspirations, even though all his mother (Victoria Hamilton) knows how to make is toast. When his mother dies, relations grow strained between Nigel and his father (Ken Stott), especially when he remarries a woman (Helena Bonham Carter) 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.

Joe Williams

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Oct 21, 2011

2.5/4

Like its namesake, "Toast" is crusty comfort food with little nutritional substance.

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Tom Keogh

Seattle Times

Oct 20, 2011

3/4

"Toast" has three things deserving of adoration: spectacular lemon-meringue pies, the songs of Dusty Springfield and Helena Bonham Carter.

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Ty Burr

Boston Globe

Oct 13, 2011

1.5/4

Director S.J. Clarkson seems oblivious to the dissonance; perhaps he's deafened by the music.

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Steve Cruz

OUT FRONT Magazine (Denver)

May 9, 2023

B

If you love the look and sound of the ’60s, mixed with a doddy story of a charming British gay boy getting his food on, Toast may charm you as much as it did me.

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Kelly Jane Torrance

Washington Examiner

Jan 5, 2019

3/4

[Freddie Highmore's] scenes with Helena Bonham Carter, an actress who can play a meaty role like this with her hands tied behind her back, can be great fun.

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Neely Swanson

Easy Reader (California)

Sep 16, 2017

Toast never succumbs to cloying sentimentality.

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Finn G

Jan 1, 2019

This was such a quirky movie. And it's not usually the type of film that I'd like, but I really enjoyed it.

Ron M

Nov 14, 2017

Was good. It's talented cast gives this story a good pulse. Every minuet of watching Helena Bonham Carter was entertaining as this might be one of my fav performances as the competitive but still hilarious Mrs Potter.

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Luke S

Oct 10, 2017

Not sure on the good reviews here. It's almost good with the mom, but after... there's little to like. Weirdly directed. Not a story meant for the screen.

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Hagrid R

Sep 3, 2017

Heartwarming...Freddie Highmore at his best

Finn W

Aug 27, 2017

Enjoyably authentic. But one question remains: Why would you grow a vegetable garden and then only eat tinned vegetables?

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Abraham S

Jun 12, 2017

Toast shows high potential in every aspect yet everything about the movie seems uneven from the range of acting to the hit and miss screenplay the movie itself is extremely enjoyable and the story is presented in an emotionally powerful way but some of the performances seem to flop such as Oscar Kennedy's and then some performances show strong acting such as Freddie Highmore and Helena Bonham Carter although the movie is uneven and some scenes are painfully bad in many departments but toast is still a warm hearted biopic that is extremely quirky and enjoyable

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S.J. Clarkson

Director

Helena Bonham Carter

Mrs Potter

Freddie Highmore

Nigel Slater

Ken Stott

Dad

Oscar Kennedy

Young Nigel Slater

Victoria Hamilton

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Synopsis

Young Nigel Slater (Freddie Highmore) has big culinary aspirations, even though all his mother (Victoria Hamilton) knows how to make is toast. When his mother dies, relations grow strained between Nigel and his father (Ken Stott), especially when he remarries a woman (Helena Bonham Carter) 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.

Director: S.J. Clarkson
Producer: Faye Ward
Screenwriter: Lee Hall
Distributor: W2 Media
Production Co: Ruby Films, BBC Films
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 23, 2011, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Jun 23, 2017
Runtime: 1h 36m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital

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