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Toast

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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.

12-30-2010
1h 36m
Toast
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Main Cast

Freddie Highmore

Freddie Highmore

Alfred Thomas Highmore (born February 14, 1992) is an English actor. He is known for his starring roles beginning as a child, in the films Finding Neverland (2004), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), August Rush (2007), and The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008). He won two consecutive Critics' Choice Movie Awards for Best Young Performer. Highmore starred as Norman Bates in the drama-thriller series Bates Motel (2013–2017), for which he was nominated three times for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series and won a People's Choice Award. In 2017, Highmore began producing and starring as Dr. Shaun Murphy in the ABC drama series The Good Doctor, for which he was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor.

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Ken Stott

Ken Stott

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Kenneth Campbell "Ken" Stott (born 1955) is a Scottish actor, particularly known in the United Kingdom for his many roles in television. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ken Stott, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Victoria Hamilton

Victoria Hamilton

Victoria Hamilton is an English actress. After training at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, Hamilton began her career in classical theatre, appearing in productions with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre.

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Helena Bonham Carter

Helena Bonham Carter

Helena Bonham Carter CBE (born May 26, 1966) is an English actress. Known for her roles in independent films and blockbusters, especially period dramas, she is the recipient of various accolades, including a British Academy Film Award and three Screen Actors Guild Awards, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards, four British Academy Television Awards, nine Golden Globe Awards, and five Primetime Emmy Awards. Bonham Carter rose to prominence by playing Lucy Honeychurch in A Room with a View (1985) and the title character in Lady Jane (1986). Her early period roles saw her typecast as a virginal "English rose", a label she was uncomfortable with. She is best known for her eccentric fashion, dark aesthetic, and for often playing quirky women. For her role as Kate Croy in The Wings of the Dove (1997), Bonham Carter received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress, and for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother in The King's Speech (2010), she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her other films include Hamlet (1990), Howards End (1992), Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994), Mighty Aphrodite (1995), Fight Club (1999), Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005), the Harry Potter series (2007–2011) as Bellatrix Lestrange, Great Expectations (2012) as Miss Havisham, Les Misérables (2012), Cinderella (2015), Ocean's 8 (2018), and Enola Holmes (2020). Her collaborations with director Tim Burton, her former domestic partner, include Big Fish (2003), Corpse Bride (2005), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) as Mrs. Lovett, Alice in Wonderland (2010) as the Red Queen, and Dark Shadows (2012). For her role as children's author Enid Blyton in the BBC Four biographical film Enid (2009), she won the 2010 International Emmy Award for Best Actress and was nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress. Her other television films include Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald (1993), Live from Baghdad (2002), Toast (2010), and Burton & Taylor (2013). From 2019 to 2020, she portrayed Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon in seasons three and four of Netflix's The Crown.

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Matthew McNulty

Matthew McNulty

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Matthew McNulty (born Michael Anthony McNulty 14 December 1982 in Manchester) is an English actor of film and television. Description above from the Wikipedia article Matthew McNulty, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Selina Cadell

Selina Cadell

Selina Jane Cadell is an English actress. She is the younger sister of actor Simon Cadell and granddaughter of actress Jean Cadell. She is the great niece of the Scottish artist Francis Cadell.

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Clare Higgins

Clare Higgins

Clare Frances Elizabeth Higgins (born 10 November 1955) is an award-winning English actress. Description above from the Wikipedia article Clare Higgins, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Ben Aldridge

Ben Aldridge

Benjamin Aldridge (born November 12, 1985) is an English actor, born in Devon. After years with the National Youth Theatre, Ben graduated from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art with a bursary from the Genesis Foundation for young actors. He left early to begin filming his television debut alongside Ray Winstone and Parminder Nagra in Compulsion. He is notable for his role as Harry Fanshawe, husband of the title character in the 2008'Channel 4's critically acclaimed Civil War epic The Devil's Whore. He was selected by Screen International's 2008 "Stars of Tomorrow". As well as roles in First Light, Lewis, Toast and Vera, Ben also appeared as Daniel Parish in the BBC's period drama Lark Rise to Candleford. In 2011 the American network The CW cast Ben as the lead in their Pilot "Heavenly". Later on he spent time in Belgrade shooting the partially improvised love story "In the night" for director Ivana Bobic and award winning cinematographer Rain Li, alongside supermodel Daniela Dimitrovska. In September 2014, he joined BBC Original British Drama Our Girl as Captain Charles James. Ben is a co-founder of "In the Corner Productions". 

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Kia Pegg

Kia Pegg

Kia Pegg (born 29 June 2000) is an English actor and children's television presenter. She made her acting debut in 2008 aged around seven or eight. She is best known for her nine year stint as Jody Jackson on long-running CBBC series The Dumping Ground, and as receptionist Scarlett Kiernan on the BBC daytime medical drama series Doctors from 2022 until its final episode in 2024. For her performance in Doctors, Pegg was nominated at the RTS Midlands Awards, the British Soap Awards and the Inside Soap Awards. As a presenter, she is known for Saturday Mash-Up

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Movie Details

Production Info

Director:
S.J. Clarkson
Writer:
Lee Hall
Production:
Screen West Midlands, BBC Film, Ruby Films

Key Crew

Producer:
Faye Ward
Executive Producer:
Norman Merry
Executive Producer:
Jamie Laurenson
Executive Producer:
Peter Hampden
Executive Producer:
Paul Trijbits

Locations and Languages

Country:
GB; US
Filming:
GB
Languages:
en