Genre: Drama, Comedy, Suspense, Christmas, Coming Of Age, School / Campus
Tagline: Growing up has nothing to do with age.
Plot: Will (Grant) is a 38-year old Londoner living a bachelor lifestyle on the back of royalties earned from a Christmas song penned by his father some years previously. A serial womaniser, Will comes up with the idea of attending a single parents group as a new way to pick up women. Inventing a two-year old son for himself, he meets lonely, bullied schoolboy Marcus (Nicholas Hoult) and his depressed, music therapist mother (Toni Collette). The intelligent Marcus soon learns Will's secret and so blackmails him into letting him hang out at his place and watch afternoon telly. However, what starts out as an uneasy quiz show watching alliance turns into an unlikely friendship...ABOUT A BOY, directed by Chris and Paul Weitz, stars Hugh Grant as Will Freeman, a proudly self-absorbed 38-year-old Londoner. Living lavishly off the royalties from a hit Christmas song penned by his father, Will excels at nothing except doing nothing, which, in his case, includes shopping for CDs and having his hair "professionally disheveled." When Will makes a guilt-free exit from a brief fling with a single mom, he decides to crash a meeting of S.P.A.T. (Single Parents, Alone Together) in pursuit of more single mothers. This scheme leads to meeting Suzie (Victoria Smurfit) and Marcus (Nicholas Hoult), the
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| Directed by |
Chris Weitz
American Pie, Down to Earth, His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass |
 | Paul Weitz
American Pie, In Good Company, Down to Earth |
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| Written by |
| Peter Hedges
What's Eating Gilbert Grape, A Map of the World, Pieces of April |
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| Cast |
Hugh Grant
Bridget Jones's Diary, Notting Hill, Love Actually |
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 | Sharon Small
Dear Frankie, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries: Well Schooled in Murder, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries: A Great Deliverance | | | |
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