Toast
Toast
TOAST is the ultimate nostalgia trip through everything edible in 1960’s Britain. Based on the heart-wrenchingly bittersweet story of food writer, Nigel Slater’s childhood, and set to the songs of Dusty Springfield, TOAST is a delicious love letter to the tastes and smells that a young boy associates with
his journey into adulthood.
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 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.
"Beautifully done – poignant and sad, but with lightness and humour." — The Guardian
"Toast is tasty, hearty...Features a deliciously comic turn from Bonham-Carter as a semi-evil stepmother." — Variety
his journey into adulthood.
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 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.
"Beautifully done – poignant and sad, but with lightness and humour." — The Guardian
"Toast is tasty, hearty...Features a deliciously comic turn from Bonham-Carter as a semi-evil stepmother." — Variety
Runtime
96
Language
English
Director
SJ Clarkson
Cast
Freddie Highmore,
Ken Stott,
Victoria Hamilton
Played at
Monica Film Center 6.18.11 - 6.19.11
Playhouse 7 6.18.11 - 6.19.11
Claremont 5 6.18.11 - 6.19.11
Town Center 5 6.18.11 - 6.19.11
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