Welcome to KIWIreviews - product reviews
•  click here to return to the homepage  •
Welcome visitor. log in

Product reviews on kiwireviews.nz : Tuesday 15th July 2025 - 10:03:49

QuickSearch for:    What is QuickSearch?
QuickJump to:    What is QuickJump?
logon name: p/w:  

I want to:

You Are Here...

Home > Categories > Movies > Romantic > About a Boy review

« Moon Cow reviewMoon CowNotting Hill reviewNotting Hill »

Score: 9.8/10  [1 review]
5 out of 5
ProdID: 3769 - About a Boy
Directed by Paul Weitz and Chris Weitz

About a Boy
Price:
varies
Available:
DVD and Blu-Ray

About a Boy product reviews

Growing up has nothing to do with age.

In this fine adaptation of Nick Hornby's novel, Hugh Grant plays Will, a 38-year old Londoner living a bachelor lifestyle on the back of royalties earned from a Christmas song penned by his dad years earlier. A serial womaniser, he spends his days lazing around his designer pad watching TV, and then comes up with the idea of attending a single parents group as a new way to pick up women.

There he invents a two-year old son for himself, and it all results in his encountering lonely, bullied schoolboy Marcus and his depressive, music therapist mother. Marcus soon learns that Will has been lying and so blackmails him into letting him hang out at his place and watch afternoon telly. However, what starts out as an uneasy quiz show watching alliance inevitably turns into a friendship of sorts...



Tags:
boy   chris weitz   comedy   drama   hugh grant   nicholas hoult   nick hornby   paul weitz   rachel weisz   romance   single   toni collette   womaniser
Other listings you may be interested in:
The Lord of the Rings : 3 : Return of the KingThe Lord of the Rings : 3 : Return of the King
Rating: 7.9
Lost Worlds, Vanished Lives - the complete seriesLost Worlds, Vanished Lives - the complete series
Rating: 9.3
In the Name of the KingIn the Name of the King
Rating: 8.1
Surfer, DudeSurfer, Dude
Rating: 5.8
Good Bye LeninGood Bye Lenin
Rating: 10.0
Time Team - Codnor Castle and Other DigsTime Team - Codnor Castle and Other Digs
Rating: 9.3
Men in Black 3Men in Black 3
Rating: 9.1
A League of Their OwnA League of Their Own
Rating: 8.3
The PaperboyThe Paperboy
Rating: 4.3
Along Came PollyAlong Came Polly
Rating: 1.8
Harry Potter: 7: The Deathly Hallows Part 1Harry Potter: 7: The Deathly Hallows Part 1
Rating: 9.0
The DuffThe Duff
Rating: 7.6
A Dog's JourneyA Dog's Journey
Rating: 8.6

Product reviews...

Everyone is welcome to post a review. You will need to Join up or log in to post yours.

Click here to read the profile of kymmage

Review by: kymmage (Kym)
Dated: 5th of February, 2013

Link to this review Report this review

 

This Review: 9.8/10
Pay to see it again:
Score 10 out of 10
Attention Span:
Score 10 out of 10
Believeability:
Score 9 out of 10
'Warm Fuzzy' factor:
Score 10 out of 10

About a Boy was one of those hidden gems for me when it arrived on DVD. My husband knew I had enjoyed several other Hugh Grant movies (I'm honestly not that big a fan!) so he got me About a Boy for a birthday one year. I sat down to watch it, not sure what to expect. But this is again one of my favourite romantic comedy movies.

Grant plays a womaniser, but he is still quite likeable despite the lengths he goes to meet desperate women. At one point early on he is asked to be a godfather to his friends' little girl, He says no and he is quite honest about the fact that when she turns 18 years old he will most likely try to get into her pants. The story is based on a Nick Hornby novel. I haven't read it, but Hornby has had quite a few novels made into films, including High Fidelity.

Toni Collette plays the boy's (Marcus) mother. I loved her in this. She is so versatile. Here she plays a bit of a alternative hippy, who suffers greatly from depression. She seems unable to see the pain Marcus endures to make her happy and is unable to help him in his daily struggles. Lacking practical parental input and in desperate need of a friend, he falls into an arrangement with Will (Grant's character). Both fulfil a need the other has, but the arrangement seems doomed to end horribly as well. This is a really emotional movie, but there are plenty of laughs.

Random listing from 'Movies'...

Score: 9.3
Product reviews for listing 891: Aeon Flux
Directed by Karyn Kusama

Product image for Aeon FluxBased on the MTV animated series created by Peter Chung, "Aeon Flux" is set 400 years in the future, when disease has wiped out the majority of the earth's population except for one walled, protected city-state, Bregna, ruled by a congress of scientists.

The story centers on Aeon Flux, the top operative in the underground 'Monican' rebellion - led by The Handler. When Aeon is sent on a mission to kill a government leader, she uncovers ... more...

Go to the listing

General Disclaimer...

Protected by Copyscape Plagiarism Checker - Do not copy content from this page. Creative Commons Licence All trademarks, images and copyrights on this site are owned by their respective companies.
KIWIreviews is an independent entity, part of the Knock Out News Group. This is a free public forum presenting user opinions on selected products, and as such the views expressed do not necessarily reflect the opinion of kiwireviews.nz and are protected under New Zealand law by the "Honest Opinion" clause of the Defamation Act of 1992. KIWIreviews accepts no liability for statements made on this site, on the premise that they have been submitted as the true and honest opinions of the individual posters. In most cases, prices and dates stated are approximate and should be considered as only guidelines.

"Why do the Alphabet song and Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star have the same tune?"
unattributed