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DVD About a Boy (Widescreen Edition)
A box-office smash in England, About a Boy went on to charm the world as another fine adaptation (following High Fidelity) of a popular Nick Hornby novel. While High Fidelity transplanted its London charm to Chicago, this irresistible comedy was directed by Americans Chris and Paul Weitz (American Pie) with its British pedigree intact. Better yet, Hugh Grant is perfectly cast as Will, a self-absorbed trust-fund slacker who tries to improve his romantic odds by preying on desperate single mothers. His cynical strategy backfires when he recruits the misfit son (Nicholas Hoult) of a suicidal mother (Toni Collette) to pose as his own son, thus proving his parental prowess to his latest single-mom target (Rachel Weisz). The kid has a warming effect on this ultimate cad, and what could have been a sappy tearjerker turns into a subtle, frequently hilarious portrait of familial quirks and elevated self-esteem. From start to finish, it's a genuine treat. --Jeff Shannon
I had heard of this for quite some time, and someone in one of my english classes did a novel to film presentation about it maybe 3 years ago. I just watched it yesterday, and found it quite humorous. Sure it deals with some depressing topics, but it shows very well aspects of life that we will all recognize - being rejected, etc. A very good film, and one that actually portrays how people act, and how they can change.
I really enjoyed this, more so than some of Hugh Grant's other films, even though I generally like them all.
Hugh Grant hilariously redefines the word "playboy"
Hugh Grant hilariously redefines the word "playboy" in the first half of this film (directed with surprising tact by the Weitz Brothers, better known for American Pie), then gets human, without losing his comic edge.
"About a Boy" exploits Hugh Grant's edge and much of his considerable charm in its story of a 38-year-old London bachelor who accidentally becomes entangled in the life of a 12-year-old boy. In addition to being a smart comedy, it's an honest movie about childhood that avoids sappiness and sentiment and goes in unexpected directions.
Throughout the hilarity of the script, the movie is really about the two boys -- the big one and the little one and about how each has something the other one needs. I appreciated and enjoyed the humanity of the story, as sentiment is earned and not forced, and is always balanced with caustic humor.
Awesome job!!
I love this movie. I first saw it on a cable station and just got pulled into it. Might be because of Hugh Grant...*SIGH* anyways! It is very comical in several aspects of the story line and sad as well.
I don't want to spoil but just a bit of an overview, a guy that has nothing to do b/c he's so rich invents a kid to meet women, and then meets a kid that has a mom that's a loon. The kid thinks, "RIGHT ON! He can help me with my mum!" The truth comes out about the made up kid and then Hugh Grant's character makes up to be the father of the kid with the looney mum to impress another woman. That doesn't work out very well but in the end everybody is really happy! WAHOO!!
There are lots of spots that are funny because it's where the truth has to be told and they just don't know how to tell it without repercusions. Love those parts!
With no fewer than eight couples vying for our attention, Love Actually is like the Boston Marathon of romantic comedies, and everybody wins. Having mastered the genre as the writer of Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, and Bridget Jones's Diary, it appears that first-time director Richard Curtis is just like his screenplays: He just wants to be loved, and he'll go to absurdly appealing lengths to win our affection. With Love Actually, Curtis orchestrates a minor miracle of romantic choreography, guiding a brilliant cast of stars and newcomers as they careen toward love and holiday cheer in London, among them the Prime Minister (Hugh Grant) who's smitten with his caterer; a widower (Liam Neeson) whose young son nurses the ultimate schoolboy... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Hugh Grant - Liam Neeson DVD Release Date: Released the 27 April 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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They don't really make many romantic comedies like Notting Hill anymore--blissfully romantic, sincerely sweet, and not grounded in any reality whatsoever. Pure fairy tale, and with a huge debt to Roman Holiday, Notting Hill ponders what would happen if a beautiful, world-famous person were to suddenly drop into your life unannounced and promptly fall in love with you. That's the crux of the situation for William Thacker (Hugh Grant), who owns a travel bookshop in London's fashionable Notting Hill district. Hopelessly ordinary (well, as ordinary as you can be when you're Hugh Grant), William is going about his life when renowned movie star Anna Scott (Julia Roberts) walks into his bookstore and into his heart. After another contrived meet-cute involving spilled orange... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Roger Michell DVD Release Date: Released the 09 November 1999 Usually ships in 24 hours
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A surprise hit and one of the highest grossing films ever to come out of Great Britain, this effortlessly enchanting romantic comedy finds confirmed bachelor Hugh Grant (Nine Months) attending weddings with his single friends as they all lament not being able to commit. Grant keeps running into an attractive American (Andie MacDowell) at these festivities and begins a long-running affair with her, even as he attends her own wedding, the funeral of one of his best friends, and his own pending nuptials. Featuring a spirited supporting cast including Kristin Scott Thomas (The English Patient) as the acerbic friend quietly in love with Grant, this touching and funny film with a mischievous sense of humor and some truly heartbreaking moments is destined to become one of the... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Hugh Grant - Andie MacDowell Director(s): Mike Newell DVD Release Date: Released the 07 September 1999 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Featuring a blowzy, winningly inept size-12 heroine, Bridget Jones's Diary is a fetching adaptation of Helen Fielding's runaway bestseller, grittier than Ally McBeal but sweeter than Sex and the City. The normally sylphlike Renée Zellweger (Nurse Betty, Me, Myself and Irene) wolfed pasta to gain poundage to play "singleton" Bridget, a London-based publicist who divides her free time between binge eating in front of the TV, downing Chardonnay with her friends, and updating the diary in which she records her negligible weight fluctuations and romantic misadventures of the year. Things start off badly at Christmas when her mother tries to set her up with seemingly standoffish lawyer Mark Darcy (Colin Firth), whom Bridget accidentally overhears... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Sharon Maguire DVD Release Date: Released the 09 November 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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There are already great reviews giving previews of the movie so I'll not do that again.
My son is 15 and my husband and I are in our 40's. We both adore this movie. You must sit back and take the time to see (and enjoy) the humor, share in the pain(s), the quirkiness, the light romance and be a part of this village of people who will use a number of means to turn their hill into a mountain. Did I mention that the movie is based on a true story? This is one of those movies that the more times you watch it, the more things you see and catch...ahhh. Give it a chance, you may be happily surprised. We've rewatched it a couple of times a year since it first came out and truly enjoy it each and every time. I think now we sit in anticipation of what's to come.
I'm already grinning... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Hugh Grant - Tara Fitzgerald - Colm Meaney Director(s): Christopher Monger DVD Release Date: Released the 03 April 2001 Usually ships in 24 hours
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