As far as I'm concerned Freddie Highmore is still a little
boy. He’s Charlie from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and the boy in Finding
Neverland. A few years have gone by and now, suddenly, his voice has broken, he’s
shot up several feet and he’s playing sexually confused teenagers. That was a
shock.
Toast is based on the memoir of Nigel Slater – chef and
restaurant critic. More specifically it centres on Nigel’s relationship with his
father and his step-mother and the use of food and cooking to gain attention
and power within those relationships.
Also starring the amazing Helena Bonham Carter, as well as
Victoria Hamilton and Ken Stott (see him soon in the Hobbit!), this film is genuinely
pleasant to watch. It’s not trying to be something it’s not and seems happy
being a nice little British film with a happy ending. Lovely.
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