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Dinner and a Movie The delicious motion picture Toast whisks audiences away to 1960s Britain, where the clothes were loud and the food was boiled. The film tells the (mostly true) story of British food-writer Nigel Slater, who grew up with a frail mother whose cooking was so bad that toast was invariably the best thing on the menu; she was soon supplanted by a stepmother (played with great sauciness Helena Bonham Carter), who used her own far superior cooking to wrap Nigel’s father around her little finger—prompting young Nigel to develop some cooking skills of his own. “Toast” is an utterly delightful romp—positively drenched with the music of Dusty Springfield—that follows Nigel’s emerging personality, burgeoning sexuality and growing passion for food until he finally builds a life that he can stomach.
