About a Boy (2002)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.4/10   

Directors:

Chris Weitz
Paul Weitz

Escritores (WGA):

Nick Hornby (novel)
Peter Hedges (screenplay) ...

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

17 mayo 2002 (USA)

Género:

Comedia | Drama | Romance

Frase comercial:

Growing up has nothing to do with age.

Plot:

Based on Nick Hornby's best-selling novel, About A Boy is the story of a cynical, immature young man who is taught how to act like a grown-up by a little boy

Plot Keywords:

Single Parent | Man As Island | Depression | Thirty Something | Immaturity

Premios:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 8 wins & 19 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Wonderful book, wonderful movie - gotta love Nick Hornby!

Reparto

Hugh Grant	...	Will
Nicholas Hoult	...	Marcus
Sharon Small	...	Christine
Madison Cook	...	Imogen
Jordan Cook	...	Imogen
Nicholas Hutchison	...	John
Ryan Speechley	...	Barney
Joseph Speechley	...	Barney
Toni Collette	...	Fiona
Natalia Tena	...	Ellie (as Nat Gastiain Tena)
Laura Kennington	...	Ellie's Friend
Tanika Swaby	...	Ellie's Friend
Peter McNicholl	...	Ellie's Friend
Christopher Webster	...	Ellie's Friend
Ben Ridgeway	...	Lee, the Bully

También conocida como:

About a Boy oder: Der Tag der toten Ente (Alemania)
Pour un garçon (France)
Un gran chico (Argentina) (Mexico) [es]
Un niño grande (Spain) [es]

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for brief strong language and some thematic elements.

Duración:

101 min

País:

UK | USA | France | Alemania

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

2.35 : 1

Sonido:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Clasificación:

Malaysia:U | Brazil:Livre | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Austria:10 | Canada:PG | Finland:S | France:U | Germany:6 | Iceland:L | Netherlands:AL | Norway:A | Peru:14 | Philippines:PG-13 | Portugal:M/12 | Singapore:PG | South Korea:12 | Spain:T | Sweden:7 | Switzerland:10 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:10 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:12 (canton of the Grisons) | UK:12 | USA:PG-13 (certificate #38482)

Locaciones de Filmación:

BFI IMAX Cinema, Charlie Chaplin Walk, South Bank, London, England, UK

Compañía:

Kalima Productions GmbH & Co. KG

Trivialidades:

As Will describes web-based research as a "unit of time" in his day, he is seen typing the URL supermodelswithseethroughtops.com. This is actually an active Web site consisting of only a picture of the Pope, Pope John Paul II, in his "Pope-mobile".

Errores:

Continuidad: When Will is at the single parent meeting, his hair changes repeatedly between shots.

Citas:

Marcus: [Out to lunch with Will & his mum] I made her put on that nice jumper.
Will: As for his mum, she appeared to be clinically insane, and wearing some kind of yeti costume!

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in The Holiday (2006)

Banda de Sonido:

Shake Ya Ass

Wonderful book, wonderful movie - gotta love Nick Hornby!

This movie really came as a surprise to me. I had read the book shortly before I saw it and when I heard Hugh Grant was going to star and the Weitz brothers were chosen to direct I didn't exactly have high hopes. I thought "American Pie" was funny and all but this kind of story demanded someone more mature, someone clever. This movie, however, turned out to be all that: mature, clever, witty, sensible, honest and, most of all, really funny in such a natural way. Hugh Grant has never been better in any role before or since and the soundtrack by Badly Drawn Boy is just perfect for the movie. The only thing they overdid a little was Toni Collette's character. I've never seen a person like that in real life. What I did like was the way they changed the ending for the movie. Usually that's not a good idea but it totally worked here. After all, I still liked "High Fidelity" a tiny bit better (the movie, not the book), but "About A Boy" comes very close. If you are just as much a fan of this book/movie as I am, get the DVD. There are wonderful deleted scenes on it, which are as funny as the rest of the movie.