About A Boy

Released Year: 2002
Directed by Chris Weitz & Paul Weitz

Casted by:
Hugh Grant as Will Freeman
Nicholas Hoult as Marcus Brewer
Rachel Weisz as Rachel
Toni Collette as Fiona Brewer

Story:

Will's father is a famous composer of a christmas song, earning a lot and left enough properties and money for Will to spend his life. Will always believe that "Everyman is an island", he wanna live his own life in his own way. Being jobless and irresponsible, he has been wasting his life for more than 30++ years.

Until he met a single mum who he enjoy to have sex with, Will start to attend the SPAT gathering, which is a gathering for a single parent. By knowing a beautiful single mum, indirectly he knew a boy who name Marcus. Marcus came from a single parent family too. His mum, Fiona suicide which make Marcus always look for Will when he was alone. They become buddy and always stick together. Until Will met Rachel.

Rachel is his dreamgirl. The girl that he always wanted. To pretend Marcus as his son, Will approach Rachel who is also a single mum too. Things get funny and complicated until Will secret was discover. Being a supportive dude, Will help Marcus out in a school pop concert to cheer Fiona. Rachel was touched by Will's action and decided to be with him.

L² Scored: 5/10

L² Comment:

Basically, this is a very simple story. Kinda easy to understand. But there's some part which is kinda boring and you might fall asleep if you don't have a coffee with you :) Hugh's acting is so so, nothing much different from his usual perfomance. While this kid, Nicholas really gave a surprise to me. I mean, his acting is not really a superb like Halley or Dakota, but not a bad one too...