About a Boy[2002]
Starring:
Hugh Grant
Nicholas Hoult
Toni Colette
Rachel Weisz
Starring:
Hugh Grant
Nicholas Hoult
Toni Colette
Rachel Weisz
average rating: ★★★★
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performance: ★★★★
screenplay: ★★★★★
plot/storyline: ★★★★
cinematography: ★★★★
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Comedy
"About a Boy" is about how a very immature man is taught to grow up by a very mature boy. As you can guess, Hugh Grant plays this very immature man, named Will, who, on the lookout for hot single mom's, attends a "Single Parents Alone Together" meeting. From here, he meets a 12-year-old kid named Marcus (Hoult), who is entirely geeky. Pretty soon into the story you find that Marcus's mother has serious depression problems and tries to commit suicide at one point. After that, Marcus begins to drop by Will's house every day. They develop a reluctant relationship and Will learns to grow up.
The movie was really very funny. Hugh Grant played a moderately different character (who didn't stutter!!) and one of the funnest parts was that both Will and Marcus narrated the story. They would interject their thoughts into random parts of the story. It was really cute. Also, the kid who played Marcus was really good, and however horrible his haircuts may have been, he was funny.
This was yet another movie worth watching! Good laughs, cute story.
I'm about to post the movies that weren't worth watching, so hold your horses. :)
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performance: ★★★★
screenplay: ★★★★★
plot/storyline: ★★★★
cinematography: ★★★★
~
Comedy
"About a Boy" is about how a very immature man is taught to grow up by a very mature boy. As you can guess, Hugh Grant plays this very immature man, named Will, who, on the lookout for hot single mom's, attends a "Single Parents Alone Together" meeting. From here, he meets a 12-year-old kid named Marcus (Hoult), who is entirely geeky. Pretty soon into the story you find that Marcus's mother has serious depression problems and tries to commit suicide at one point. After that, Marcus begins to drop by Will's house every day. They develop a reluctant relationship and Will learns to grow up.
The movie was really very funny. Hugh Grant played a moderately different character (who didn't stutter!!) and one of the funnest parts was that both Will and Marcus narrated the story. They would interject their thoughts into random parts of the story. It was really cute. Also, the kid who played Marcus was really good, and however horrible his haircuts may have been, he was funny.
This was yet another movie worth watching! Good laughs, cute story.
I'm about to post the movies that weren't worth watching, so hold your horses. :)
1 comment:
I'm SO relieved that this movie didn't get the two star treatment. I was really worried lol. I luved this movie too. It had a lot of original touches to the plot (the Xmas song horror) and it was way more interesting than the usual coming of age story.
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