About A Boy
- 2002 film
Film based on Nick Hornby's novel about a bittersweet friendship built up between a cynical, selfish man and a bullied 11 year old boy. Stars Hugh Grant, Nicholas Hoult, Rachel Weisz, Victoria Smurfit, Toni Collette and more.
Streaming rank this week: 140
Press clippings
Minnie Driver to star in US TV version of About a Boy
Actress Minnie Driver is to appear in the American comedy version of Nick Hornby novel About A Boy.
Alice Vincent, The Telegraph, 15th February 2013NBC re-making 'About a Boy' as a single camera comedy
NBC is set to remake About a Boy as a single camera comedy.
Nick Barnes, iMediaMonkey, 14th January 2013Hugh Grant is impossibly perfect casting as an eternal bachelor boy in this Oscar-nominated adaptation of Nick Hornby's unusual coming-of-age comedy-drama. He's Will, a happily superficial chap whose inherited wealth (from his dad's Christmas novelty pop single) means he never needs to work again. Will is disconnected from the world until a chance encounter with a depressed single mum (Toni Collette) and her precocious son Marcus, played by a pre-hottie, pudding-bowled Nicholas Hoult.
Sharon Lougher and Larushka Ivan-Zadeh, Metro, 23rd August 2012'About A Boy' Storms to Top
About A Boy has enjoyed the strongest opening of any British movie this year, taking almost £3.75m.
BBC News, 30th April 2002