The Frame

James McAvoy plays a young man headed to Bristol University, taking part in the University Challenge trivia contest (which he and his dad had watched on television all during his childhood), and falling in love with the hot blonde girl while failing to notice the girl who really cares about him. Yeah, the story’s routine. But it’s still quite delightful, and we all agreed that it was markedly superior to what the equivalent American film would’ve been–for example, in an American film of this sort, the hot blonde girl would also have turned out to be mean and stupid, but here she’s actually quite nice and pretty smart. Rebecca Hall is really good as the other girl; she was Christian Bale’s wife in The Prestige and did a great job there as well–I’m hoping to see a lot more of her in the future.
Above Average