Starter for 10

Despite its awkward title, Starter for 10 is a winning coming-of-age tale told with grace and charm.

Some nice performances and modest laughs highlight this amiable British comedy.

Shifting the self-deprecating japery of "High Fidelity" from a record store to a quiz show makes Starter for 10 a sweetly endearing date movie.

There's a tidiness and affection to this British homage to John Hughes movies.

For the most part, it's all fairly predictable material, although McAvoy and his costars invest the movie with dynamic performances that manage to keep the story's characters just this side of stereotype and mediocrity.

The main novelty of this conventional, slight, but charming youth picture is that it's English and therefore more class-conscious than most American equivalents.

Your basic and basically predictable by-the-numbers picture.