About a Boy Summary
MPAA Rating: PG13
Director: Chris Weitz, Paul Weitz
Genres: Comedy Drama
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London's most frequently eligible bachelor gets some lessons in growing up from a maladroit 12-year-old boy in this third big-screen adaptation of a Nick_Hornby novel, directed and co-written by siblings Chris and Paul_Weitz of American_Pie fame. About a Boy concerns the parallel coming-of-age stories of the thirtysomething Will (Hugh_Grant), a layabout "serial nice guy" living a posh, carefree lifestyle off his deceased father's fortune; and the preteen Marcus (Nicholas_Hoult), a bright but awkward youth who's tired of his mom Fiona's (Toni_Collette) depressed, boyfriend-less state. Their paths collide when Will, deciding that single mothers are the easiest romantic conquests on the dating scene, fabricates a two-year-old son and joins a group called S.P.A.T. (Single Parents Alone Together). Marcus is wise to Will's scheme, however, and through some incessant pestering and blackmail, he contrives for Will to date Fiona. Though Will doesn't hit it off immediately with either Marcus or his mother, he gradually begins to open up to the people around him -- so much so that he attracts the attention of another attractive single mom (Rachel_Weisz). A U.S./U.K. co-production of Robert DeNiro's Tribeca Films and Tim_Bevan and Eric_Fellner's Working Title (the company responsible for the Grant-related Four Weddings and a Funeral and Bridget_Jones's_Diary), About a Boy was co-written by What's_Eating_Gilbert_Grape creator Peter_Hedges. Michael Hastings, Rovi
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