Toaster is no longer screening in cinemas, but the DVD is available to buy online from HMV, Woolworths, Zavvi, Tesco, Amazon, Play and more!
And it is due for release into stores on the 26th of May! For more info, click the link below:
SYNOPSIS
It’s the definitively middle-class Royal Tunbridge Wells. We follow in the painful footsteps of teenage romantic obsessive Lance as Steph, “the fittest thing since sliced fit” and the object of his classroom desire, turns up to his very first house party.Terrified of holding ‘the worst party ever’ but desperate to get to know Steph, Lance faces his fear when his parents go away for a dirty weekend. Enlisting his enigmatic, porn-addicted best mate Henry to help plan things, Lance tries to work out what to do when “You’ve got no girls, no idea and 24 hours to throw a party”.Cometh the hour, cometh the girl. But when Steph turns up with the man-eating Abby and the man-hating Heather (not to mention a posse of hardened chavs), Henry’s meddling sees Lance’s dreams painfully fall apart as the worst party ever, gets progressively worse. But as the carnage dies down, is there light at the end of a very long, very dark tunnel?
It’s the definitively middle-class Royal Tunbridge Wells. We follow in the painful footsteps of teenage romantic obsessive Lance as Steph, “the fittest thing since sliced fit” and the object of his classroom desire, turns up to his very first house party.Terrified of holding ‘the worst party ever’ but desperate to get to know Steph, Lance faces his fear when his parents go away for a dirty weekend. Enlisting his enigmatic, porn-addicted best mate Henry to help plan things, Lance tries to work out what to do when “You’ve got no girls, no idea and 24 hours to throw a party”.Cometh the hour, cometh the girl. But when Steph turns up with the man-eating Abby and the man-hating Heather (not to mention a posse of hardened chavs), Henry’s meddling sees Lance’s dreams painfully fall apart as the worst party ever, gets progressively worse. But as the carnage dies down, is there light at the end of a very long, very dark tunnel?
But it’s also an uplifting personal story of how by daring to step out of his safety zone, an awkward boy is catapulted out of the loneliness of living in his head into a social life.
WHAT PEOPLE HAVE SAID ABOUT IT SO FAR
“A huge-hearted comedy tour de force from a future master story-teller” - James Delow, Producer ‘That Film Show’ Rapture TV.”A huge-hearted comedy tour de force from a future master story-teller” - James Delow, Producer ‘That Film Show’ Rapture TV.”A deeply amusing and I believe accurate portrayal of the teenage psyche” - Henry Thomas, former head of Universal Pictures, London.
“Packed with wit and and canny observation of character. Laloe is something of a modernday Hogarth, revealing our everyday absurdities in a hilarious but also intelligent way.” - Steve Gough, Award winning Writer/Director of ‘Elenya’ and ‘Heartland’ staring Anthony Hopkins.
‘Working on Toaster has kick-started my dreams. Things that I thought I couldn’t do before seem like a possibility.’
Adam Clements, 20 (aged 16 when he started working on the project).
‘Working on this project has helped me to mature. I’ve learned all kinds of skills that I wouldn’t have a clue about otherwise.’
Lucy Ingham, 19 (aged 16 when she started working on the project).
‘It was a life changing experience. I learned everything that I know about film-making, and also a lot about people and life.’
Emma Blake, 19 (aged 17 when she started working on the project).
‘When we started making ‘We’ve got the Toaster’ we used young people because they were the people who were around us at the time. They were excited and they were up for it. Now I would have to use young people in everything that I do because they have a kind of energy that’s like a type of magic.’
Janey Moffatt, Producer.
‘We’ve got the Toaster’ was made on a tiny budget and took over 3 years from beginning to premiere. The cast and crew was made up of over 100 people, the vast majority of whom were under 18 when they started working on the project. Many of them had never been on a film set before. But they all had one thing in common – they knew what it felt like to be teenager.
‘We didn’t want to make a Kung Fu film or Gangster film, because we didn’t know anything about Kung Fu or about being a gangster. So I looked at what my experiences were. Growing up in Tunbridge Wells I didn’t exactly experience much that was newsworthy, but when you look a little deeper, you realise that everyone’s teenage years are teeming with drama and conflict.’
Mike Laloe, Writer/Director.
This project has been supported by Screen South and the RIFE lottery funding programme.
