- Genre
- Film
- Released
- 2002
- Starring
- Hugh Grant, Nicholas Hoult, Rachel Weisz, Victoria Smurfit, Toni Collette, Natalia Tena and Augustus Prew
- Writers
- Nick Hornby and Peter Hedges
- Directors
- Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz
- Producer
- Tim Bevan
Will is a thirty-something bachelor who spends his life luxuriating in the bliss of having nothing to do; Marcus is an 11 year old boy who is bullied and scared about his mum's mental health. Thrown together by a series of lies and scheming on Will's behalf, they build up a curious friendship.
From Marcus' influence, Will begins to change his ways and proves to everyone that he is not worthless.
- Tagline
- Growing up has nothing to do with age
- UK certificate
- 12
- Duration
- 97 minutes
- Release date
- Friday 26th April 2002
- Box office
- £16,387,798
- Production companies
- Soundtrack
- Badly Drawn Boy provides nearly all of the music for this film.
- Laugh track
- None
Broadcast details
- Last repeat
- Monday 18th May 2020 at 9:00pm on 5Star
Website links
- Official Site
The official About A Boy website. Quite old and broken now. Probably not worth a look. - IMDb
- Wikipedia
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