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Foodie memoir ‘Toast’ is just a little overdone

By Ty Burr

 |  Globe Staff  

  October 13, 2011

*1/2 Toast The coming of age of a British foodie, based on the memoirs of writer-chef Nigel Slater. The conflict between the boy (Freddie Highmore) and his tawdry stepmother (Helena Bonham Carter) doesn’t work - she’s adorable, he’s a prat - and the obnoxiously ”sensitive” music score is an active turn-off. (96 min., unrated) (Ty Burr)

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