About a Boy
Will Freeman is a good-looking, smooth-talking bachelor whose primary goal in life is avoiding any kind of responsibility. But when he invents an imaginary son in order to meet attractive single moms, Will gets a hilarious lesson about life from a bright, but hopelessly geeky 12-year-old named Marcus. Now, as Will struggles to teach Marcus the art of being cool, Marcus teaches Will that you're never too old to grow… From TMDB
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60 of 74 · most liked firstoh Juror No. 2 is GOOD good. The About a Boy reunion I never knew I always wanted, and possibly the first Clint Eastwood movie since The Outlaw Josey Wales in which someone says the word “podcast.”
unlabelledView post →We are watching About a Boy. I love this movie.
unlabelledView post →I can’t make it a phenomenon but I AM gonna try to make About A Boy a Christmas movie in this house
unlabelledView post →I'm glad Nicholas Hoult is getting more serious and intense roles. He's not the best actor of all time but he's probably the most well-rounded. I remember seeing About a Boy as a kid and thinking "damn this is a great movie and the kid is a great actor"
unlabelledView post →Books to Films 📚=🎞️ About a Boy (1998) by Nick Hornby was filmed in 2002. Though faithful in many respects, the film makes some changes including the ending. Glaringly the grunge/Nirvana references are discarded in favor of rap music. Drug abuse & depression are also removed. 👨👦🎶🎸 #booksky #filmsky
unlabelledView post →Nicolas Hoult is a different former child actor (was the boy in About A Boy), who was in the TV show Skins, the X-Men prequels, Warm Bodies, The Favourite, The Menu, and The Garfield Movie as Jon (yes really) He was also this guy in Fury Road
unlabelledView post →Thinking about things that are named for/puns on/references to other things but which are much better known than the original, prompted by realisation of how many more people will know the movie About a Boy than Nirvana's About a Girl
unlabelledView post →#DavidsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge Day 4 - A song you love from a movie you don't Badly Drawn Boy - Silent Sigh from the movie About A Boy youtu.be/a87kwCYMf3o?...
unlabelledView post →About a Boy was released in theaters on this day 24 years ago. It is such a remarkable film and the cast are amazing. #Filmsky #Moviesky #May
unlabelledView post →Introduce yourself with: One book: The Death of Napoleon by Simon Ley One film: About a Boy One album: Emergency & I by The Dismemberment Plan One show: Freaks and Geeks
unlabelledView post →ABOUT A BOY is a perfect movie and Nicholas Hoult brilliantly holds his own against champs like Hugh Grant, Rachel Weisz and Toni Collette
unlabelledView post →About A Boy is a Christmas movie.
unlabelledView post →it's time for me to bring my Christmas movie hot take here: Love Actually is not Hugh Grant's best Christmas movie. it is About A Boy.
unlabelledView post →About a Boy is on. Lukewarm take: the film is a lot better than the book. I like the film a lot, I like Hugh Grant in it (and a great soundtrack too).
unlabelledView post →About a Boy is like the perfect (non-absurd) British comedy movie too, I could sing its praises
unlabelledView post →FilmSky #Movies 🎬🎥 Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order No explanations, no reviews, just gifs #FilmChallenge Day 8 About A Boy
unlabelledView post →I’m a part of @scrawl.bsky.social ‘s #NovemberNews #MusicChallenge . And today’s theme is ‘Holiday’ . I really love About A Boy which is the perfect holiday movie and Badly Drawn Boy’s ‘Donna And Blitzen’ is all enjoyable syncopation. m.youtube.com/watch?v=EerN...
unlabelledView post →#filmsky Hugh Grant has made a fine career playing the cad who turns out to be a twit, never better than in About A Boy (out today, 2002), where his irresponsible Will gets his comeuppance from a grating 12-year-old lad. Funny and surprisingly moving film, one of Grant’s grooviest flicks.
unlabelledView post →"About a Boy" is my favorite Christmas movie, but it's an every-other-year watch.
unlabelledView post →Haven’t read the full piece as I’ve yet to see the film but I’m loving the appreciation of Nicholas Hoult. It’s been a low-key pleasure following his trajectory since About a Boy.
unlabelledView post →Without saying Heretic favorite Hugh Grant movie About a Boy
unlabelledView post →About a Boy is such an important movie to me. So many things I love about it
unlabelledView post →wait, did the United States government write the film "ABOUT A BOY"
unlabelledView post →Introduce yourself with: One book: Runaway, Alice Munro One film: About A Boy One album: The Dismemberment Plan, Emergency & I One TV show: The Rehearsal (this is impossible)
unlabelledView post →One of my favourite weird film names in translation is this German one: 'About a Boy oder: Der Tag der toten Ente' [About a Boy or: The Day of the Dead Duck]
unlabelledView post →#JuneMovieChallrnge #FilmSky 🎥 Movie with a duck in it. About a Boy (2002)
unlabelledView post →Amazing that Lex Luthor in the latest Superman movie is also the kid from "About a Boy."
unlabelledView post →I still can’t believe the kid from About a Boy turned out to be a mega handsome movie star. I would have taken all the bets back in 2002 and lost.
unlabelledView post →Choose one film from each of your 30 favourite directors. Name of the film and director, along with a still. 22/30 Film: About a Boy Director: Paul and Chris Weitz #Filmsky🎥 #MovieSky #directorchallenge #filmsky
unlabelledView post →About A Boy is a nice little film, to be fair.
unlabelledView post →#OnThisDay 2002 Silent Sigh by Badly Drawn Boy was released Internationally It was from his soundtrack album for the movie About A Boy Badly Drawn Boy was born in Dunstable but grew up in Breightmet,Bolton He won the 2000 Mercury Music prize for his album The Hour Of The Bewilderbeast
unlabelledView post →Did not know that About a Boy was a play on Nirvana's About a Girl! Also, this is going to be even more removed because the film excised a lot of the Nirvana subplot, if I remember right.
unlabelledView post →The main reason I consider About A Boy to be a Christmas film youtu.be/EerNlcxBJyU?...
unlabelledView post →Then, one day, you realise the handsome young actor with piercing blue eyes in the film you're watching was the weird little kid in About A Boy, and Stewart Lee has turned into a large old Cornish fisherman.
unlabelledView post →Actor: Nicholas Hoult Film: About A Boy Scene: Dead Duck Day
unlabelledView post →I unapologetically love this movie. Rob is my kind of anti-hero. An oblivious, insecure slacker. He’s a dickhead but not inherently a bad person. Will in About A Boy (also by Nick Hornby) is very similar and that is one of my all time favorite movies. Rob is the male Carrie Bradshaw. #HATM
unlabelledView post →Lovely, well-casted, written & performed. Charming & so very, very human. ❤️ About a Boy (film) - Wikipedia share.google/p7pC6RIy9nMC...
unlabelledView post →I've been a fan of Nick Hornby ever since reading his memoir, Fever Pitch (he also wrote the screenplay for the 1997 film version). High Fidelity is a fantastic novel, as are About a Boy and Juliet, Naked. He even has 2 Oscar nominations for his screenplays for An Education and Brooklyn.
unlabelledView post →Just watched About a Boy here. Fav Xmas film #JoinIn
unlabelledView post →That's right, 2002's About A Boy is a Christmas movie in the same vein of It's A Wonderful Life.
unlabelledView post →About a Boy is a great film.
unlabelledView post →My yearly holiday movie is "About a Boy." Great movie, great message, not saccharine, just totally perfect
unlabelledView post →What is your favorite sappy movie? I must default to most any RomCom starring Hugh Grant and the stellar supporting casts of those movies. Especially "About A Boy".
unlabelledView post →Many, many years ago I read the book About A Boy. Then I watched the movie adaptation when it came out. Today was the day I learned that Nicholas Hoult was the boy in the movie.
unlabelledView post →The movie Hugh Grant should have won an Oscar About A Boy.
unlabelledView post →I caught a bit of the Superman film with that bloke that was the kid in About a Boy(?) playing Lex Luthor. There's so much going on at the same time, it's a bombardment of things flying around, exploding, getting punched etc etc. Also, wasn't there a travelling to a different dimension bit too?🤷
unlabelledView post →About A Boy. I love that film.
unlabelledView post →About A Boy might be my favorite ever movie
unlabelledView post →About a Boy is a Christmas film.
unlabelledView post →Combine 2 Film Titles 2 Make a New Film: About a Boy C.H.U.D.
unlabelledView post →So the movie About A Boy is based on the book About A Boy and is in turn in reference to the Nirvana song About A Girl. This is Hornsby book so music matters and the movie kind alludes that it matters.
unlabelledView post →You never saw About a Boy? He was so precious in that movie as a wee babe. 😭 But now he can fuck off because I WILL NOT PUT NOSTALGIA FOR A STORY OVER PEOPLE'S ACTUAL LIVES. 😇
unlabelledView post →Okay so Nicolas Hoult is a bad person, what exactly am I supposed to do with the information? Boycott the new Superman film? Never watch About a Boy ever again? Okay so maybe it omitted the most important arc from the book but it's still a decent film.
unlabelledView post →About A Boy… Can’t believe I remember this movie, since it’s so bad
unlabelledView post →About A Boy. A very good movie.
unlabelledView post →So I want to talk a bit more about About a Boy because I have the script at hand now. It’s a fascinating to me because I think the book is all atonal and the movie is a tuning fork. The book botches the suicide attempt so badly and the movie crushes it.
unlabelledView post →What’s your favorite movie from each decade of your life? 80s - Labyrinth 90s - Sleepy Hollow 00s - About a Boy 10s - What We Do in the Shadows 20s - Don’t Worry Darling www.listchallenges.com/lprock1s-fav...
unlabelledView post →Film-wise: at 9pm, Carlito’s Way on Film4, Moonraker on ITV4 or About a Boy on 5Star. At 10.40, Whitney: I Wanna Dance with Somebody on BBC1. At 11.30, The Duchess on BBC2. At 11.35, Kill Bill Vol2 on ITV4. At 11.45, Doll’s Eye on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social At 11.55, Ready Or Not on Film4 #telly
unlabelledView post →There is a scene in the film 'About a Boy' (2002) in which a woman is wearing a T-shirt that reads 'Lorena Bobbitt or US-Surgeon General!' I think women should wear such statements to cause MAGA moron men more paranoia.
unlabelledView post →But you could tell he'd somehow been Hollywoodised between About A Boy and after that film (complimentary).
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