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help with a food movie

posted 15 years ago by allenng15
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Hey guys, I need help with the title of a food theme movie I watched on tv long time ago. This has always stuck in my head but I honestly have no clue where I can get help except coming to the chocolat discussion board.

The movie was about a boy who was sent to study in some private school/ religious school. It was a very uptight school and the boys were not allowed to go outside very often. The main character has a major crush on cake-making, and he would sneak out the campus to get different books, ingredients to make a cake. One time, after putting wine in his cake, he got caught by the principle. Also, there was a scene where a bunch of boys were looking at their teacher taking a bath from their windows. That's all I could remember.

Thanks!

[–] MystMoonstruck 13 years ago

This is rather late, but I did not see this thread before. This one deals with more than cakes, so it could be a major miss.

Your question reminds me of "A Feast at Midnight" (1994).
From IMDb review: This is a film about boys in an English boarding school. The outcasts of the school band together and create a secret cooking club, where they bake the most delicious, forbidden treats imaginable. The main character has a correspondence with his father, who has been in ill health, that is touching, humorous, and beautiful. This correspondence heartens and inspires the boy and helps lead to and support the creation of his secret cooking club.

From IMDb review 2: Christopher Lee gives a splendid performance in one of the most charming films made in Great Britain in recent memory. A Feast at Midnight is one of those warm family entertainments that manages to delight both children and parents alike.
Young Magnus Gove (Freddie Findlay) is sent away to an austere boarding school that manages to serve the most unpalatable of meals. Even the Headmaster (Robert Hardy) can barely stomach the overly healthy menu. Magnus' father (Edward Fox in a short cameo) sends him a number of enticing recipes, which spur Magnus and his oddball group of friends to venture, in the dead of night, into that forbidden no-boys land of "The Kitchen". There they discover the true meaning of friendship as they concoct the most unlikely of meals. The interaction between the boys that make up "The Scoffers" club is priceless. All handled with just the right tone by director Justin Hardy (son of The Wicker Man's Robin Hardy), to avoid falling into the bottomless well of gushing sentimentality.
Christopher Lee handles the key role of Latin Master, V. E. Longfellow aka Raptor, with great aplomb. His stern features belie a warm and fun-filled heart as is evidenced by the exchange of low-key double entendre with Miss Plunder (Carol Macready) the housekeeper over her home-cooked meals.

~~MystMoonstruck~~

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