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About a Boy

2002

Paul Weitz, Chris Weitz

Hugh Grant, Nicholas Hoult, Toni Collette, Rachel Weisz ...

6.0

15,063

Comedy. Drama Will Lightman (Hugh Grant) is a hip Londoner in his late thirties who one day realizes that his friends are all involved with the responsibilities of married life and that leaves him alone in the cold. Passing himself as a single father, he starts to meet a string of single mums, confident in his ability to leave them behind when they start to ask for a commitment. But Will's hope of a continued bachelorhood is interrupted when he meets ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"One of the year's most entertaining films, not only because Grant is so good but because young Nicholas Hoult has a kind of appeal that cannot be faked. (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"[The Weitz brothers] handle the sentimentality of the story with a light, sweet touch (...) You succumb to the movie's warmth and bonhomie"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"This is a serious, intelligent and committed performance from Grant (...) It is a watchable picture"	POS
United Kingdom	Tom Dawson BBC	"A shrewd, ironically amusing adaptation (...) Capturing Will's surface charm and inner hollowness, Grant gives an immaculate comic performance (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Colin Kennedy Empire	"The plusses outweigh the minuses (...) A comedy-drama with a steady supply of laughs (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Peter Rainer New York Magazine	"About a Boy is sophisticated and nuanced, and every character is bursting with emotional contradictions"	POS
United Kingdom	Lorien Haynes Radio Times	"Hugh Grant is on excellent form as Will (...) Genuinely funny and moving, this is both an endearing examination of masculinity and a challenge to male isolationism (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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