Steering mercifully clear of the usual Oxbridge stereotypes, this documentary account of the annual Oxford-Cambridge boxing match is inspirational stuff. Following five novices determined to make the University squad, it doesn’t flinch from the blood, sweat and tears en route. The wannabes — artist Charlie, weedy Kavanagh, gung-ho Yank Justin, rugby player Boiler and boxing natural Fred — are a representative sample of the student body but for their unlikely determination to turn from geek into pugilist.
The film focuses a trifle too much on ‘dreaming spire’ shots and too little on character, but you’d have to have gone to Cambridge to avoid being swept up in the nailbiting finale.