![]() In a more mild review, Stephanie Merry of the Washington Post wrote: “for the most part, the movie feels like an emotional vacuum, mirroring the drab vanilla and mint green interiors of the Slaters' home.” Writing for the Seattle Times, Tom Keogh gave the film 3 out of 4 stars, stating that “the movie has three things deserving of adoration: spectacular lemon-meringue pies, the songs of Dusty Springfield and Helena Bonham Carter.” Gary Goldstein of the Los Angeles Times wrote that “'Toast' is by turns sweet and tart, airy and rich and, above all, a thoroughly irresistible confection”, giving the movie 4 out of 5 stars. Filming lasted 1 month, from 21 June to 24 July 2010. The only inclement weather encountered during filming was at Penarth which resulted in script changes to reflect the cold wet conditions. Principal sets were constructed in a disused bank on Broad St. The chief filming location was in Birmingham and Worcestershire with the Black Country Living Museum transformed into 1960's Wolverhampton, and in Walton Pool House in Clent. The chef has Nigel put on a chef's jacket embroidered with "Savoy London" and Nigel cracks a smile. Nigel is reassured by the chef that he will make it. At The Savoy Hotel, he is interviewed for a kitchen job by a toast snacking chef and hired, much to his disbelief. Potter when he declares that she has won and he wants her out of his life. Nigel, finding his father has died while he was at the pub, resolves to make off for London and bewilders Mrs. He encourages Nigel to take a chance at the world despite being on his own. His departure from employment is not without benefit when, on a walk in the woods with the pub owner's son, who is training at ballet school, the two share a kiss, stirring Nigel's sexual awareness. Slater makes every attempt to thwart Nigel's efforts at cooking by having him quit a Saturday job at a pub restaurant. Potter's excessive cooking, although he intends to marry her. Potter's lemon meringue pie becomes Nigel's quest to learn the secret recipe.Īlan's cantankerous nature returns with the endless eating that must be done with Mrs. She makes a competition of cooking when the teenaged Nigel shows an emerging interest in developing his skills at school home economics class cookery lessons. Nigel co-exists with her but never accepts her. Without announcement, the Slaters move to the Herefordshire countryside along with Mrs. The two start to spend time together: at one point, she exits her council house through an upstairs window so as not to be found out by her husband. Joan Potter, who seduces Alan with her apple pie and array of gourmet meals. His cooking efforts are thwarted by the new housekeeper, the married and "common" Mrs. Nigel learns from a friend that the way in which he could attempt a better relationship with his father is to cook a meal for him. The experience brings Nigel to conclude that he is not liked. His father continues in widowhood with the same cooking style and frequent dinners of toast. Despite her infrequent forays into cooking meals from scratch, his mother's attempts to improve her cooking change nothing before or after her death. ![]() He loves toast, with the crunchy outside giving way to buttery softness inside. When dinner is burnt, the standard substitute of toast is always served. Nigel longs for a life that is more than a succession of canned-food dinners made from what can be heated in boiling water. Alan Slater is sick with worry and has a cantankerous personality. Slater's chronic debilitating asthma and her cooking being limited to heating canned goods in boiling water. The Slaters of Wolverhampton are plagued with Mrs.
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