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About a Boy DVD Movie
About a Boy Description: "About A Boy is about a man — a handsome, rich, shallow, self-absorbed, irresistible cad — and the unexpected relationship he develops with a boy he meets while trying to pick up another boy's mother. Terminally single and ecstatically child-free, Will (Hugh Grant), a trendy, 38-year-old Londoner, spends his days buying new CDs, shopping for designer clothes and worrying about his Audi Coupe and up-to-the-second hairstyle. Nights, whenever possible, are devoted to beautiful women. Work? What's that? Thanks to a ubiquitous Christmas standard written by his dad and recorded by everyone from Elvis to the Muppets, Will doesn't have to work like the rest of the world. The royalties rolling in have enabled him to make a profession — an art, really — out of avoiding responsibility. A no-strings fling with a single mom turns on the proverbial lightbulb over his head: maybe a good place to meet women would be single-parent support groups. And so, posing as a single dad with a fictitious two-year-old, he joins S.P.A.T. — Single Parents, Alone Together. Well on his way to charming a single mom named Suzie (Victoria Smurfit), he inadvertently bonds with a 12-year-old misfit named Marcus (Nicholas Hoult), the latchkey son of Suzie's best friend. That would be Fiona (Toni Collette), a flaky, eccentric, single, hippie-chick. A good boy, Marcus just wants mom to be happy — because she's literally been suicidal since a recent break-up. Add on the fact that the kids at school won't stop picking on him, and Marcus is under more pressure than any 12-year-old should be. So Marcus turns to the nearest father figure for help. That would be Will. Though he quickly deduces that Will has lied about a single dad, Marcus badly needs a friend, and try as he does to resist, Will gradually starts to care about the boy's well-being. As Will plays Pygmalion, treating Marcus to a shopping spree for the hippest sneakers and CDs, Marcus' self-confidence grows. Likewise, thanks to Marcus and Fiona, Will finds himself becoming less self-obsessed, less concerned with being the star of his own meager life. That's when he meets Rachel (Rachel Weisz), a bright, beautiful single mom with a 12-year-old boy of her own. Will finds himself falling in love — real, undeniable love — for the very first time in his life. but it's complicated — especially when Rachel assumes that Marcus is his son. Who knew love could be so hard? And what strange forms it can take? And what ridiculous things it can make a man do? It's almost more than Will can bear, especially when he realizes whow much he cares about Rachel, Marcus, even wacky Fiona. And when Will puts himself on the line for his makeshift family — without premediatation or calculation — it's a shock to discover that he has saved not only Marcus and Fiona, but himself."
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Hugh Grant, Toni Collette, Rachel Weisz, Nicholas Hoult, Annabelle Apsion, Isabel Brook, Victoria Smurfit,
About a Boy is Rated: PG-13,
Category: Drama,
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Run Time for About a Boy: 101 min.,
About a Boy was Released: 2003,
By: Universal,
Director:
Chris Weitz, Paul Weitz,
Stock # About a Boy DVD 93865D1,
Format DVD
Number of Discs: 1
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