About a Boy (Blu-ray) PG-13
Growing up has nothing to do with age.

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Blu-ray Disc Features:
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 1 hours, 42 minutes
- Video: Color
- Released: May 1, 2012
- Originally Released: 2002
- Label: Universal Studios
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Note: Deleted scenes
- Spotlight on location: The making of About a Boy
- "Santa's Super Sleigh": Lyrics to the entire song
- English to English dictionary
- Feature commentary with directors Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz
- Aspect Ratio: Widescreen - 2.35
- Audio:
- Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo - English, French
- DTS HD Master Audio - English, French
- DTS Surround 5.1 - English, French
- Subtitles - Spanish
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Hugh Grant | |
Performer: | Nicholas Hoult, Toni Collette, Rachel Weisz & Victoria Smurfit | |
Directed by | Chris Weitz & Paul Weitz | |
Screenwriting by | Paul Weitz, Peter Hedges & Chris Weitz | |
Original story by | Nick Hornby | |
Composition by | Badly Drawn Boy | |
Produced by | Brad Epstein, Tim Bevan, Jane Rosenthal & Eric Fellner | |
Director of Photography: | Remi Adefarasin | |
Executive Production by | Lynn Harris & Nick Hornby |
Entertainment Reviews:
This is better than feelgood movie, it's a feelgreat movie -- affecting when you least expect it and funny from start to finish.
Wall Street Journal
If the story gets dangerously thin, Grant is pretty well flawless. And Collette, always good, is heartbreakingly believable.
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People Magazine
...ABOUT A BOY is that rare film that's as clever and moving as the book on which it was based....It's a well-written, witty film whose memorable characters grapple with the nature of family, love, friendship and despair...
USA Today
The directors Paul and Chris Weitz -- the American Pie brothers -- have tried hard not to make a tearjerker, and at its best the movie is knowing and tart.
New Yorker
About a Boy is better than a feelgood movie, it's a feelgreat movie -- genuinely clever, affecting when you least expect it to be and funny from start to finish.
Wall Street Journal
...[The directors] deliver a punchy, smirking script, laced with irreverence. Just as importantly, there's real chemistry between Grant and his young co-star...
Total Film
In print. Hornby's story was lapped up by women. On screen, it looks likes the worst kind of unconvincing, unfelt schmaltz, and faintly misogynist in the subordination of its female characters to the needs of its male star. Come back, Richard Curtis.
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The Spectator
Product Description:
ABOUT A BOY, directed by Chris and Paul Weitz, stars Hugh Grant as Will Freeman, a proudly self-absorbed 38-year-old Londoner. Living lavishly off the royalties from a hit Christmas song penned by his father, Will excels at nothing except doing nothing, which, in his case, includes shopping for CDs and having his hair "professionally disheveled." When Will makes a guilt-free exit from a brief fling with a single mom, he decides to crash a meeting of S.P.A.T. (Single Parents, Alone Together) in pursuit of more single mothers. This scheme leads to meeting Suzie (Victoria Smurfit) and Marcus (Nicholas Hoult), the socially awkward 12-year-old son of her flaky best friend, Fiona (Toni Collette). A series of odd situations leads to Will and Marcus becoming unlikely friends, and gradually both of their lives start to change for the better. However, when Will falls for the lovely Rachel (Rachel Weisz) and attempts to pass Marcus off as his son, things go awry. In order to win the heart of Rachel and make amends with Marcus, Will must finally grow up--and completely embarrass himself in front of hundreds of people.
Reveling in its characters' quirks and flaws, ABOUT A BOY is a smart, funny, and fast-paced comedy, meticulously crafted by the Weitz brothers. Grant, in possibly the best performance of his career, wisely covers his patented charm with a shallow facade, and Hoult avoids being too cute or precocious; instead, the two actors develop believable characters that grudgingly warm up to each other. Collette is suitably bizarre as a depressed hippie mother, and Weisz provides excellent support in her relatively small role. However, it's clear from the title that this film is about the boys. And that includes Badly Drawn Boy (aka Damon Gough) who contributes an outstanding soundtrack that recalls Simon and Garfunkel's work on THE GRADUATE. Given Nick Hornby's excellent source material, ABOUT A BOY could have easily been an enjoyable movie, but in the hands of its talented collaborators, it's a truly exceptional tale.
Reveling in its characters' quirks and flaws, ABOUT A BOY is a smart, funny, and fast-paced comedy, meticulously crafted by the Weitz brothers. Grant, in possibly the best performance of his career, wisely covers his patented charm with a shallow facade, and Hoult avoids being too cute or precocious; instead, the two actors develop believable characters that grudgingly warm up to each other. Collette is suitably bizarre as a depressed hippie mother, and Weisz provides excellent support in her relatively small role. However, it's clear from the title that this film is about the boys. And that includes Badly Drawn Boy (aka Damon Gough) who contributes an outstanding soundtrack that recalls Simon and Garfunkel's work on THE GRADUATE. Given Nick Hornby's excellent source material, ABOUT A BOY could have easily been an enjoyable movie, but in the hands of its talented collaborators, it's a truly exceptional tale.
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- Theatrical release: May 17, 2002
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- UPC: 025192112096
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