Netflix has released the trailer for My Oxford Year, based on the book by Julia Whelan.
Ambitious American student Anna (Sofia Carson) has one year at Oxford University for a study abroad program before she returns to the states for a job at Goldman Sachs waiting for her.
“We have a student all the way from…” Corey Mylchreest’s (Queen Charlotte: A Bridgeton Story) Jamie Davenport prompts Anna after viewers see the school’s headmaster encourage students to “seize” their “precious time” at the historic school.
“New York,” Anna answers.
Anna’s life is completely on track until this detour. With the aim to fulfill a childhood dream, she soon finds herself completely charmed by her poetry professor, and they assert that they’ll just have fun romantically.
“Flirting with the hot teacher on the first day?” Harry Trevaldwyn’s (How To Train Your Dragon) character Charlie Butler asks Anna following this encounter, in which there is an obvious spark. She denies it, but Charlie encourages it.
“O, no, I love it,” he says. “That is a serious bit of crumpet.”
The film also stars Dougray Scott, Catherine McCormack, Harry Trevaldwyn, Esmé Kingdom, Nikhil Parmar, Poppy Gilbert, Romina Cocca, Yadier Fernández, Nia Anisah, Hugh Coles.
Corey Mylchreest as Jamie in ‘My Oxford Year’
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Directed by Iain Morris from a screenplay by Allison Burnett and Melissa Osborne, My Oxford Year is produced by Marty Bowen, Wyck Godfrey, Laura Quicksilver, Isaac Klausner. Executive producers include Caroline Levy, Sofia Carson, Laura Char Carson, Christopher Simon, Maggie Monteith, Pete Harris. George Berman serves as co-producer.
After Jamie shows Anna a hidden part of the Oxford Library prompted by her sharing that she loves to be amongst dusty first editions of books, their purely “fun” romance seems to get more serious, at least on her part.
“You don’t need to try and fix my life,” Jamie tells her. “Some things are just broken. Don’t waste the short time you have left in Oxford on me.”
A friend to Anna tells her it’s not worth the pain to get involved, but she feels differently.
“I don’t know what you’re going through, then you don’t have to do it alone,” she tells Jamie. “This is the messiness of life. These are the best bits. A succession of moments is really all we have, and I want mine to be with you.”
