Toast

After his asthmatic mother (Victoria Hamilton), who has a delicate stomach and can barely toast bread or boil water, dies in this charming, amusing, heartwarming, factually inspired, 2010 film, which is based on chef and food writer Nigel Slater's memoir Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger, a creative, 9-year-old English boy (Oscar Kennedy) develops a passion for food and cooking, which gets into high gear as an inquisitive, motivated, competitive teenager (Freddie Highmore) when his stuffy father (Ken Stott) marries his manipulative housekeeper (Helena Bonham Carter) in 1960s England and they vie for his dad's affections through cooking scrumptious meals and desserts.
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