About a Boy
- Original title
- About a Boy
- Year
- 2002
- Running time
- 105 min.
- Country
United Kingdom
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Hugh Grant
- Nicholas Hoult
- Toni Collette
- Rachel Weisz
- Victoria Smurfit
- Sharon Small
- Rosalind Knight
- Augustus Prew
- Natalia Tena
- Jordan Cook
- Nicholas Hutchison
- Chris Webster
- Ben Ridgeway
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Comedy. Drama | Comedy-Drama. Friendship. Childhood. New Year's Eve
- Movie Groups
- Nick Hornby Adaptations
- Synopsis
- Will Lightman (Hugh Grant) is a hip Londoner in his late thirties 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 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.
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- Awards
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2002: Nominated for Oscar: Best Adapted Screenplay2002: 2 Nominations for Golden Globe: Best Movie Comedy or Musical, Actor (Hugh Grant)2002: 2 BAFTA Nominations: Best Supporting Actress (Collette) and Adapted Screenplay2002: American Film Institute (AFI): Top 10 - Movies of the Year2002: Nominated for Critics' Choice Awards: Best Young Actor (Nicholas Hoult)2002: Writers Guild of America (WGA): Nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay
- Critics' reviews
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"About a Boy is sophisticated and nuanced, and every character is bursting with emotional contradictions"
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- Ranking Lists Position
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- 70 My Top 10 Movies from 2002 (34)
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