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About A Boy
Based on the novel by Nick Hornby this comedy/drama stars Hugh Grant as Will. Marcus believed that he could cope with anything. He didn't mind having the wrong clothes, the wrong hair and complete lack of cool. What he couldn't cope with was his mother crying before breakfast. Then along comes Will, 36 and very cool and not that enamoured with children. It looks as though Marcus and Will have a lot to learn about each other...
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About A Boy
Based on the novel by Nick Hornby this delightful comedy/drama stars Hugh Grant as Will. Marcus believed that he could cope with anything. He didn't mind having the wrong clothes, the wrong hair and complete lack of cool. What he couldn't cope with was his mother crying before breakfast. Then along comes Will, 36 and very cool and not that enamoured with children. It looks as though Marcus and Will have a lot to learn about each other...
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About A Boy/ Notting Hill
Two films. About A Boy - Based on the novel by Nick Hornby this delightful comedy/drama stars Hugh Grant as Will. Marcus believed that he could cope with anything. He didn't mind having the wrong clothes, the wrong hair and complete lack of cool. What he couldn't cope with was his mother crying before breakfast. Then along comes Will, 36 and very cool and not that enamoured with children. It looks as though Marcus and Will have a lot to learn about each other... Notting Hill - Charming comedy with Julia Roberts as Anna Scott, the world's most famous movie star. Her picture is everywhere and she has no privacy. William Thacker, the owner of a travel bookstore, has problems of his own. His business is stagnant, he has the room-mate from hell and his love-life is completely non-existent. When Anna and William's paths cross, romance is the last thing on either of their minds.
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About a Boy
Will Behr lives on his own and does not want children, but he does see the point of single mothers, especially if they look like Julie Christie. Then he meets Marcus, whose parents have split up and who is being persecuted by bullies. Marcus discovers that Will has a lot to teach him about life. author: Hornby, Nick; publisher: HarperCollins Audio
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Vision Video Ltd. About a Boy [2002]
The film version of Nick Hornby's novel <I>About a Boy</I> takes a deeper though no less entertaining approach than the easy laughs of <I>Fever Pitch</I> and <I>High Fidelity</I>. The coming together of idle playboy Will (Hugh Grant) and put-upon loner Marcus (Nicholas Hoult) is a revealing tale of self-understanding and role reversal. Will finds that being yourself is of little consequence without a defining human context, while Marcus finds that pleasing others counts for little without a degree of self-confidence. How they arrive at this complementary awareness is the intriguing subject matter of the film, involving well-meaning single mothers, difficult adolescents and helpless older adults. Yet there's a wider significance to all this in the guise of human stereotypes--how we fall into them and how we can try to get out of them. <p> The film's wit and amusement comes down to deft and understated directing from Chris and Paul Weitz, and a snappily crafted screenplay from Peter Hedges and the Weitz brothers. Grant clips his hair as well as his vowels for a believable and ultimately sympathetic Will--by far his best performance since <I>Four Weddings and a Funeral</I>. As Marcus, Hoult is convincingly self-dependent, but could have been even more self-absorbed. Toni Colette is a dead-ringer for the well-meaning but ineffectual hippie mother Fiona, while Rachel Weisz gives her best screen performance to date as the attractive and vulnerable Rachel, with whom Will comes of age emotionally. Badly Drawn Boy's soundtrack will delight those who enjoy his brand of reconstituted 1970s Dylan; the title track has a wistful charm and there's a gem of an instrumental in the Countdown sequence. <I>About a Boy</I> is in the best traditions of British comedy: enlightening as it amuses, it's a film to enjoy and come back to. --<I>Richard Whitehouse</I>
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ABOUT A BOY
12 author: ; publisher: UCA
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ABOUT A BOY
15 author: ; publisher: VVL
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About a Boy
One of a series of simplified educational editions written for learners of English as a foreign language. author: Hornby, Nick; publisher: Longman
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About A Boy (Wide Screen)
About A Boy (Wide Screen) DVD Region 2 About A Boy (Wide Screen), Catalogue Number: 9038399, Release Date: 02/12/2002
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Badly Drawn Boy: About A Boy (Original Soundtrack)
Damon Gough's original soundtrack from the movie based on the book by Nick Hornby and starring Hugh Grant.
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Hugh Grant Collection - Love Actually/ About A Boy/ Notting Hill
Three films starring Hugh Grant. Love Actually - A film about love in all its varied forms and the relationships that exist between real people, whether they be parents, children, friends or lovers. A whole host of popular British actors are brought together, with a number of storylines, all leading up to Christmas. As the characters and plot lines develop, the stories begin to overlap and interrelate (sometimes with amusing consequences). No matter how painful the experience may become, the message seems to be, that all people need to feel love of some kind to fulfil the natural human need for companionship. Bill Nighy received the (c) BAFTA 2003 award for Actor In a Supporting Role. About A Boy - Some men just don't want to grow up - Will Freeman is one of them. At 36 Will is having trouble fitting into his life, but he's not worried. Independently wealthy, Will can't quite see the point of other peoples lives - jobs, babies etc. But Will knows that he does like women, especially pretty women. Will is very proud of himself when he comes up with the brilliant idea of how to meet single women - he pretends to be separated with a two year old son and starts attending single parent meetings. The plan is an instant success and Will discovers he's a natural with children. However, he soon meets Marcus, the son of a single parent, who has enough intelligence to see through Will's rouse and consequently bribes Will to let him hang out with him at his house. Marcus's mother is suicidally depressed, and Marcus uses Will as a route to escape from his problems at home. Marcus also feels that having a nice boyfriend would make his mother happy again, and he sees Will as the ideal man. Despite himself Will finds he is being drawn into messy human affairs that he is trying to avoid, and finds himself becoming more attached to Marcus than he ever thought possible... Notting Hill - Comedy with Julia Roberts as Anna Scott, the world's most famous movie star. Her picture is everywhere and she has no privacy. William Thacker, the owner of a travel bookstore, has problems of his own. His business is stagnant, he has the room-mate from hell and his love-life is completely non-existent. When Anna and William's paths cross, romance is the last thing on either of their minds.
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ABOUT A BOY/NOTTING HILL BOX SET
15 author: ; publisher: UNIV
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E-Penguin general About a Boy
Hardcover, E-Penguin general
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Penguin Books Ltd About a Boy
Will Lightman is a Peter Pan for the 1990s. At 36, the terminally hip North Londoner is unmarried, hyper-concerned with his coolness quotient and blithely living off his father's novelty song royalties. Will sees himself as entirely lacking in hidden depths--and he's proud of it! The only trouble is, his friends are succumbing to responsibilities and children and he's increasingly left out in the cold. How can someone brilliantly equipped for meaningless relationships ensure that he'll continue to meet beautiful Julie Christie-like women and ensure that they'll throw him over before things get too profound? A brief encounter with a single mother sets Will off on his new career, that of serial nice guy. As far as he's concerned--and remember, concern isn't his strong suit--he's the perfect catch for the young mother on the go. After an interlude of sexual bliss, she'll realise that her child isn't ready for a man in their life and Will can ride off into the Highgate sunset, where more damsels apparently await. The only catch is that the best way to meet these women is at single-parent get-togethers. In one of Nick Hornby's many hilarious (and embarrassing) scenes, Will falls into some serious misrepresentation at SPAT (Single Parents-- Alone Together), passing himself off as a bereft single dad: There was, he thought, an emotional truth here somewhere, and he could see now that his role-playing had a previously unsuspected artistic element to it. He was acting, yes, but in the noblest, most profound sense of the word. <p> What interferes with Will's career arc, of course, is reality--in the shape of a 12-year-old boy who is in many ways his polar opposite. For Marcus, cool isn't even a possibility, let alone an issue. For starters, he's a victim at his new school. Things at home are pretty awful, too, since his musical-therapist mother seems increasingly in need of therapy herself. All Marcus can do is cobble together information with a mixture of incomprehension, innocence, self-blame and unfettered clear sight. As fans of <I>Fever Pitch</I> and <I>High Fidelity</I> already know, Hornby's insight into laddishness magically combines the serious and the hilarious. <I>About a Boy</I> continues his singular examination of masculine wish-fulfilment and fear. This time, though, the author lets women and children onto the playing field, forcing his feckless hero to leap over an entirely new--and entirely welcome--set of emotional hurdles.
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HarperCollins About a Boy
Audio CD, HarperCollins
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Penguin Books Ltd About a Boy
Will Lightman is a Peter Pan for the 1990s. At 36, the terminally hip North Londoner is unmarried, hyper-concerned with his coolness quotient and blithely living off his father's novelty song royalties. Will sees himself as entirely lacking in hidden depths--and he's proud of it! The only trouble is, his friends are succumbing to responsibilities and children and he's increasingly left out in the cold. How can someone brilliantly equipped for meaningless relationships ensure that he'll continue to meet beautiful Julie Christie-like women and ensure that they'll throw him over before things get too profound? A brief encounter with a single mother sets Will off on his new career, that of serial nice guy. As far as he's concerned--and remember, concern isn't his strong suit--he's the perfect catch for the young mother on the go. After an interlude of sexual bliss, she'll realise that her child isn't ready for a man in their life and Will can ride off into the Highgate sunset, where more damsels apparently await. The only catch is that the best way to meet these women is at single-parent get-togethers. In one of Nick Hornby's many hilarious (and embarrassing) scenes, Will falls into some serious misrepresentation at SPAT (Single Parents-- Alone Together), passing himself off as a bereft single dad: There was, he thought, an emotional truth here somewhere, and he could see now that his role-playing had a previously unsuspected artistic element to it. He was acting, yes, but in the noblest, most profound sense of the word. <p> What interferes with Will's career arc, of course, is reality--in the shape of a 12-year-old boy who is in many ways his polar opposite. For Marcus, cool isn't even a possibility, let alone an issue. For starters, he's a victim at his new school. Things at home are pretty awful, too, since his musical-therapist mother seems increasingly in need of therapy herself. All Marcus can do is cobble together information with a mixture of incomprehension, innocence, self-blame and unfettered clear sight. As fans of <I>Fever Pitch</I> and <I>High Fidelity</I> already know, Hornby's insight into laddishness magically combines the serious and the hilarious. <I>About a Boy</I> continues his singular examination of masculine wish-fulfilment and fear. This time, though, the author lets women and children onto the playing field, forcing his feckless hero to leap over an entirely new--and entirely welcome--set of emotional hurdles.
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HarperCollins About a Boy
Will Lightman is a Peter Pan for the 1990s. At 36, the terminally hip North Londoner is unmarried, hyper-concerned with his coolness quotient, and blithely living off the royalties of his father's novelty song. Will sees himself as entirely lacking in hidden depths--and he's proud of it! The only trouble is, his friends are succumbing to responsibilities and children, and he's increasingly left out in the cold. How can someone brilliantly equipped for meaningless relationships ensure that he'll continue to meet beautiful Julie Christie-like women <I>and</I> ensure that they'll throw him over before things get too profound? A brief encounter with a single mother sets Will off on his new career, that of serial nice guy. As far as he's concerned--and remember, concern isn't his strong suit--he's the perfect catch for the young mother on the go. After an interlude of sexual bliss, she'll realize that her child isn't ready for a man in their life and Will can ride off into the Highgate sunset, where more damsels apparently await. The only catch is that the best way to meet these women is at single-parent get-togethers. In one of Nick Hornby's many hilarious (and embarrassing) scenes, Will falls into some serious misrepresentation at SPAT (Single Parents--Alone Together), passing himself off as a bereft single dad: There was, he thought, an emotional truth here somewhere, and he could see now that his role-playing had a previously unsuspected artistic element to it. He was acting, yes, but in the noblest, most profound sense of the word. <p> What interferes with Will's career arc, of course, is reality--in the shape of a 12-year-old boy who is in many ways his polar opposite. For Marcus, cool isn't even a possibility, let alone an issue. For starters, he's a victim at his new school. Things at home are pretty awful, too, since his musical therapist mother seems increasingly in need of therapy herself. All Marcus can do is cobble together information with a mixture of incomprehension, innocence, self-blame, and unfettered clear sight. As fans of <I>Fever Pitch</I> and <I>High Fidelity</I> already know, Hornby's insight into laddishness magically combines the serious and the hilarious. <I>About a Boy</I> continues his singular examination of masculine wish-fulfilment and fear. This time, though, the author lets women and children onto the playing field, forcing his feckless hero to leap over an entirely new--and entirely welcome--set of emotional hurdles.
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About A Boy
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Penguin About a Boy (Penguin ELT Simplified Readers: Level 4: 1700 Headwords: Intermediate)
Pages: 80, Paperback, Penguin
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Universal Pictures Video About A Boy [2002]
Release Date: 2006-02-06, Rating Suitable for 12 years and over,
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