Thanks. I didn't know there was any BBC money behind The History Boys.

The majority of the films from the BBC are from BBC Films, I think. But The History Boys is the only film which comes from BBC Two Films.

Some films are in the name of the BBC. One of the more suprising films from them is the Sam Raimi film "A Simple Plan" which I rate as the best American film of the 1990s. He is best known for the Evil Dead films and the Spiderman films, but this is his finest film in my opinion - a modern morailty tale on what greed can do to ordinary people.

This is a warning about Eastern Promises. I cannot be certain about this as I did not choose to see this film yesterday. However I understand that there is a sex scene involving an underage prostitute in which she is fully nude. As far as I can tell from the IMDB website the actress who played the prostitute was at the time either 15 or 16. As this film was made in England, there is a real possibility that a criminal offence was committed as sexual nudity is illegal under the age of 18. In another film The Reader there is a sex scene involving a boy who is underage. As this film was shot in the UK, the makers of the film deliberately waited until the actor reached his 18th birthday before shooting that scene.