The History Boys
2006 · 109 MIN · IMDB 6.8 · 21,868 VOTES · DIR. Nicholas Hytner
Overview
The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in pursuit of an undergraduate place at Oxford or Cambridge. Bounced between their maverick English master, a young and shrewd teacher hired to up their test scores, a grossly out-numbered history teacher, and a headmaster obsessed with results, the boys attempt to pass.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,520 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:01:15 # Wish me luck as you wave me goodbye
00:06:11 - (groans) Not again, Miss. - This is Oxford and Cambridge.
00:10:08 Determined to try for Oxford. Christ Church, of all places.
00:13:45 Ah! Cher monsieur le directeur.
00:18:01 Thrutch up.
00:22:53 Me? I wouldn't waste the money. I'd go to Newcastle and be happy.
00:27:26 How come you know all this by heart?
00:31:53 I don't see how we can understand it.
00:36:13 Breaking bread with the dead, that's what we do.
00:40:11 So, how are you finding them?
00:44:49 Well. Er... it's what you don't do.
00:49:58 In your own time, sir.
00:55:43 Any thoughts?
01:01:04 Dorothy, what has Gracie Fields got to do with anything?
01:06:04 Are they smiling?
01:09:38 Are we scarred for life, do you think?
01:14:17 History is women following behind... with a bucket.
01:18:44 - Was Poland taken by surprise? - To some extent.
01:24:23 Or if there'd been no children coming?
01:30:18 (shouts) Splendid news! Splendid news.
01:35:51 You've already had one master touch you up.
01:40:21 Hector, I thought I'd made this plain.
01:45:36 a career he's always threatening to abandon in order, as he puts it, "really to write".
01:51:38 # Am I
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,520
Dialogue density13.9 lines / min
First line00:01:15
Final line01:51:38
Production Record
DirectorNicholas Hytner
LanguageEnglish
Budget$4,000,000
Revenue$13,401,952
IMDb votes21,868