narrative ground." On Metacritic, the film has a score of 65 out of 100 based on 19 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews." Departures from the true story The main character Nathan Ellis is based on mathematical genius Daniel Lightwing who is on the autism spectrum. Lightwing had a teacher who saw his potential and became his mentor; however, his mentor was not a man but a woman named Miggy Biller who is the Head of Maths at York College. Lightwing never lost his father; in fact, his father also attended with him at the film premier. In the film the IMO takes place in Cambridge, England, but the actual event that Lightwing participated in was in Slovenia. The training camp took place in China where Daniel fell in love with a Chinese woman named Zhu Yan whom he married (they are no longer together). Lightwing's mentor Miggy Biller attended the film's premiere and told the York College newsletter: "We sat beside each other at the showing, chuckling together about some of the film's maths problems. It was funny to look at the line between fact and fiction being trod all the time by the film! Dan's Dad, sitting just behind us, saw himself killed in a car accident … and I don't think I need to say that I didn't recognise myself in Rafe Spall!" She went on to say, "It's a brilliant and very moving film, and Asa Butterfield is amazing." Lightwing told the Evening Standard, "I cried the first three times I watched it. It says things I was feeling but could not express." References External links 2010s coming-of-age comedy-drama films 2010s teen comedy-drama films 2014 films British coming-of-age comedy-drama films British teen comedy-drama films 2010s English-language films Films about autism Films about mathematics Films shot in Cambridgeshire Films shot in South Yorkshire Films shot in Taiwan International Mathematical Olympiad Plaion Samuel Goldwyn Films films Films about multiple sclerosis 2010s British films