About a Boy About a Boy

One ordinary couple. One little white lie.

Will Freeman is a hip Londoner who one day realizes that his friends are all involved with the responsibilities of married life and that leaves him alone in the cold. Passing himself off as a single father, he starts to meet a string of single mums, confident in his ability to leave them behind when they start to ask for a commitment. But Will's hope of a continued bachelorhood is interrupted when he meets 12-year old Marcus, in many ways his complete opposite.

Hugh Grant Nicholas Hoult Toni Collette Rachel Weisz Sharon Small Madison Cook Jordan Cook Nicholas Hutchison Ryan Speechley Joseph Speechley Natalia Tena Isabel Brook Orlando Thor Newman Russell Barr Denise Stephenson Peter Roy Rosalind Knight Augustus Prew Victoria Smurfit

Universal Pictures

romance drama foreign comedy

101 mins   More details at IMDb / TMDb

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  • Diego Villalobos

    Review by Diego Villalobos ★★★½

    Me gustó mucho por el hecho de ser una comedia impredecible, pero hasta ahí.

  • JordanFerguson

    Review by JordanFerguson ★★★½

    Will (Hugh Grant) is a selfish, sarcastic, carefree playboy living off of royalties from a song his father wrote decades ago. That is, until pretending to have an infant son to score with single mothers saddles him with an adolescent boy (Nicholas Hoult) in need og guidance after his wayward mother (Toni Collette) attempts suicide. Throw in Will’s development of actual feelings for Rachel (Rachel Weisz) and you have the makings for an incredibly clichéd coming of age film. Instead, with a script adapted from Nick Hornby’s insightful novel and a soundtrack by the soulful Badly Drawn Boy, what results is an insightful look at what creates bonds between people, and the things that allow us to finally grow up.

  • pnb

    Review by pnb ★★

    Why must Hugh Grant blink so much?

  • Adam

    Review by Adam ★★★½

    A strong film with solid writing and performances. It fails for me in relying on a lot of humiliation-ignorance humor. This occurs when a reasonably intelligent character out of a seemingly incomprehensible ignorance does something that is terribly funny and results in his temporary humiliation. I find this sort of humor fine in sit-coms, where it is the preferred method of comdey, but part of why it works there is the sense of familiarity and repetition and most importantly knowing that the outcome is decided and will ultimately not be terribly consequential because a reset will occur before the beginning of the next episode. This suggests that knowing the characters and knowing the outcome of a film with this sort…

  • Luke Smith

    Review by Luke Smith ★★★★½

    A grounded and charming movie with a great performance from Hugh Grant, and an amazing script

  • Cyrian7

    Review by Cyrian7 ★★★★

    Probably Hugh Grant's best performance, and I consider myself a fan of his work (No, really.) And who'd have thought the awkward kid with the terrible haircut would grow up to be a heartthrob burgeoning action hero who dated Jennifer Lawrence? I was impressed with Nicholas Hoult the first time I saw this, and I was impressed with him again when he resurfaced after an extremely fortunate puberty in the excellent BBC show Skins. His is one of those rise-to-popularity stories I applaud. But he might well always be, for me, sentimental oddball Marcus. And that's not a bad thing. The Weitz brothers show true filmmaking maturity here after the whole pie fucking thing, actually improving upon Nick Hornby's wonderful…

  • Brett Blumenkopf

    Review by Brett Blumenkopf ★★★★

    Very funny and honest comedy with one of Hugh Grant's best roles. I really, really liked this movie.

  • jimele

    Review by jimele ★★★½

    I didnt expect to like it. I would have no problem to watch this movie again

  • Alberto Monroy

    Review by Alberto Monroy ★★★

    Publiqué el 25/03/2010:

    Acabo de ver "About a Boy" (Weitz & Weitz, 2002) con mi hija mayor... Not bad :-)
    2010-03-25 07:07:57 (+00:00)