Spud (film)

Spud is a 2010 South African comedy-drama film which is based on the novel of the same name by John van de Ruit.

Written and directed by Donovan Marsh.

Mr. Edly

• Good God. Horror, horror, horror! Tongue nor heart; cannot conceive or name thee! May all the trumpets speak; give them all breath, Those clamorous harbingers of blood and death! With me, you will be learning English. Not the, uh... rapturous ramblings of some self-obsessed literary queen. Exhibit one: Henry James. Exhibit two: Virginia Woolf and Agatha Christie. Frustrated sex-crazed carpet munchers with underarm firm. Don't get me wrong, boys; I have nothing against lesbians, nothing at all. In fact, I'd like to give them all a jolly good Rogerie.
• However, I will be teaching you malodorous meerkats how to be men! You will learn about women and sex. And if I do my job right, when you leave this class, you will be the kind of man that men envy and the kind of man that women cannot resist.

Mrs. Wilson

• The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars, As daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven, Would through the airy region stream so bright, That birds would sing and think it were not night. See how she leans her cheek upon her hand! O, that I were a glove upon that hand, That I might touch that cheek!

Cast

• Troye Sivan as John "Spud" Milton
• John Cleese as Mr. "The Guv" Edly, an alcoholic English teacher
• Tanit Phoenix as Mrs. "Eve" Wilson
• Jeremy Crutchley as Mr. Glockenshpeel ("The Glock")
• Jamie Royal as Henry "Gecko" Barker
• Sven Ruygrok as Robert "Rambo" Black
• Josh Goddard as Charlie "Mad Dog" Hooper
• Thomas Burne as Vern "Rain Man" Blackadder
• Byron Langley as Simon Brown
• Travis Hornsby as Alan "Boggo" Greenstein
• Blessing Xaba as Sidney "Fatty" Sibeko-Scott
• Aaron McIlroy as Mr. Milton, Spud's father
• Julie Summers as Mrs. Milton, Spud's mother
• Genna Blair as Debbie "The Mermaid"
• Jason Cope as Mr. "Sparerib" Wilson, Eve's husband
• Charlbi Dean Kriek as Amanda
• Alex McGregor as Christine
• Graham Weir as Mr. "Viking" Richardson
• Siobhan Hodgson as Mrs. Roberts
• Ryan Mayne as Julian
• James Murray as Bert
• Darren Frances as Pike
• Ricky Cruz as Devries
• Sylvaine Strike as San Sister
• Lehasa Moloi as P.J. Luthuli, head boy of Michaelhouse
• Brenda Ngxoli as Innocence, the Miltons' house maid
• Terry Norton as The Guv's wife
• Christine le Brocq as Mrs "Wombat" Milton, Spud's grandmother
• Ben Voss as Mr. Lily
• Patrick Kenny as Reverend Bishop
• Shaeleen Tobin as Marge, The Mermaid's mother
• Liam Magner as "Hairy Gavin"
• John van de Ruit as Mr. Lennox
• Laura Santoni as the Librarian
• Harry Wilcox as Student C

External links

• Spud quotes at the Internet Movie Database
• Spud at Rotten Tomatoes