About a Boy

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Theatrical Release Date:

05/17/2002

DVD Release Date:

01/14/2003

Run Time:

100min.

Starring:

Hugh Grant , Nicholas Hoult , Toni Collette , Rachel Weisz , Isabel Brooke

Director(s):

Chris Weitz , Paul Weitz

Distributor(s):

Universal

MPAA Rating:

PG-13 for brief strong language and some thematic elements.

Genre(s):

Comedy,Drama

Plot: London's most frequently eligible bachelor gets some lessons in growing up from a maladroit 12-year-old boy in this third big-screen adaptation of a Nick Hornby novel, directed and co-written by siblings Chris and Paul Weitz of American Pie fame. Read More

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I love the book About A Boy but this is the first time I can honestly say, I liked the film better. When I read the *********** picturing Hugh Grant as the lead so when I heard it was being released a... nd he was starring I couldn't wait to see it. I had high expectations for this film and it beat every one of them. It's touching. We watch a grown man learn to love for the first time in his life. The supporting cast (including Toni Colette and Rachel Weisz) were amazing and Hugh Grant made this character not only real but sympathetic in a way the lead in the book could not. For all the touching and tender things this story teaches you may be surprised at how hard you laugh. Hugh Grant always plays an amazing cad (think Bridgette Jones) If you read the book don't expect the same ending. The movie is hysterical and the ending will leave you laughing out loud. You will never forget it. Full Review

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