Nigel Slater has a mother who can’t cook and a verbally abusive father who doesn’t know how to relate to his son. All Nigel wants to do is learn to cook something other than toast (his mother’s speciality).
When his mother dies, his dad hires Mrs. Potter, a married cleaning woman, Helena Bonham Carter, who wears 1960s tight dresses and an unattractive frumpy blonde hairdo. She sets out to win Nigel's father through her cooking in hopes that he will rescue her from the bleak life she lives.
Eventually Nigel and Miss Potter begin a competition that changes the course of each of their lives.
Made for BBC, the film is told with lovingly attention to 1960s detail. The young Nigel is wonderful and Miss Carter creates another memorable character.
Toast (2010) Netflix *****
When his mother dies, his dad hires Mrs. Potter, a married cleaning woman, Helena Bonham Carter, who wears 1960s tight dresses and an unattractive frumpy blonde hairdo. She sets out to win Nigel's father through her cooking in hopes that he will rescue her from the bleak life she lives.
Eventually Nigel and Miss Potter begin a competition that changes the course of each of their lives.
Made for BBC, the film is told with lovingly attention to 1960s detail. The young Nigel is wonderful and Miss Carter creates another memorable character.
Toast (2010) Netflix *****
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