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FilmPG-132002
About a Boy
Directed by Chris Weitz, Paul Weitz
Will Freeman is a good-looking, smooth-talking bachelor whose primary goal in life is avoiding any kind of responsibility. But when he invents an imaginary son in order to meet attractive single moms, Will gets a hilarious lesson about life from a bright, but hopelessly geeky 12-year-old named Marcus. Now, as Will struggles to teach Marcus the art of being cool, Marcus teaches Will that you're never too old to grow… From TMDB
95 reactions from 3 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews) · newest Nov 3, 2026 · last updated Nov 4, 2026 · How this works
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About a Boy is a 2002 drama comedy romance film, directed by Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz, starring Hugh Grant, Nicholas Hoult and Toni Collette.
- 88 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews
- posts span Mar 22, 2020 to Nov 3, 2026
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60 of 95 · most liked firstoh Juror No. 2 is GOOD good. The About a Boy reunion I never knew I always wanted, and possibly the first Clint Eastwood movie since The Outlaw Josey Wales in which someone says the word “podcast.”
positive · AI labelView post →We are watching About a Boy. I love this movie.
positive · AI labelView post →I can’t make it a phenomenon but I AM gonna try to make About A Boy a Christmas movie in this house
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm glad Nicholas Hoult is getting more serious and intense roles. He's not the best actor of all time but he's probably the most well-rounded. I remember seeing About a Boy as a kid and thinking "damn this is a great movie and the kid is a great actor"
positive · AI labelView post →🎉 Happy Birthday, Nicholas Hoult! 🎂 At age 11, Nicholas Hoult helped Hugh Grant choose an Aston Martin Vanquish during the filming of ABOUT A BOY. However, Grant later found the car unreliable. Hoult’s son helped shave his head for his role as Lex Luthor in the upcoming film SUPERMAN: LEGACY.
neutral · AI labelView post →Books to Films 📚=🎞️ About a Boy (1998) by Nick Hornby was filmed in 2002. Though faithful in many respects, the film makes some changes including the ending. Glaringly the grunge/Nirvana references are discarded in favor of rap music. Drug abuse & depression are also removed. 👨👦🎶🎸 #booksky #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →Nicolas Hoult is a different former child actor (was the boy in About A Boy), who was in the TV show Skins, the X-Men prequels, Warm Bodies, The Favourite, The Menu, and The Garfield Movie as Jon (yes really) He was also this guy in Fury Road
neutral · AI labelView post →Thinking about things that are named for/puns on/references to other things but which are much better known than the original, prompted by realisation of how many more people will know the movie About a Boy than Nirvana's About a Girl
neutral · AI labelView post →#DavidsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge Day 4 - A song you love from a movie you don't Badly Drawn Boy - Silent Sigh from the movie About A Boy youtu.be/a87kwCYMf3o?...
neutral · AI labelView post →About a Boy was released in theaters on this day 24 years ago. It is such a remarkable film and the cast are amazing. #Filmsky #Moviesky #May
neutral · AI labelView post →Introduce yourself with: One book: The Death of Napoleon by Simon Ley One film: About a Boy One album: Emergency & I by The Dismemberment Plan One show: Freaks and Geeks
neutral · AI labelView post →ABOUT A BOY is a perfect movie and Nicholas Hoult brilliantly holds his own against champs like Hugh Grant, Rachel Weisz and Toni Collette
positive · AI labelView post →About A Boy is a Christmas movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →it's time for me to bring my Christmas movie hot take here: Love Actually is not Hugh Grant's best Christmas movie. it is About A Boy.
positive · AI labelView post →About a Boy is on. Lukewarm take: the film is a lot better than the book. I like the film a lot, I like Hugh Grant in it (and a great soundtrack too).
positive · AI labelView post →About a Boy is like the perfect (non-absurd) British comedy movie too, I could sing its praises
positive · AI labelView post →FilmSky #Movies 🎬🎥 Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order No explanations, no reviews, just gifs #FilmChallenge Day 8 About A Boy
neutral · AI labelView post →I loved the movie “About A Boy” and it’s been so cool to see him grow up into a great actor and do so many fun roles.
positive · AI labelView post →I’m a part of @scrawl.bsky.social ‘s #NovemberNews #MusicChallenge . And today’s theme is ‘Holiday’ . I really love About A Boy which is the perfect holiday movie and Badly Drawn Boy’s ‘Donna And Blitzen’ is all enjoyable syncopation. m.youtube.com/watch?v=EerN...
positive · AI labelView post →#filmsky Hugh Grant has made a fine career playing the cad who turns out to be a twit, never better than in About A Boy (out today, 2002), where his irresponsible Will gets his comeuppance from a grating 12-year-old lad. Funny and surprisingly moving film, one of Grant’s grooviest flicks.
positive · AI labelView post →"About a Boy" is my favorite Christmas movie, but it's an every-other-year watch.
positive · AI labelView post →Haven’t read the full piece as I’ve yet to see the film but I’m loving the appreciation of Nicholas Hoult. It’s been a low-key pleasure following his trajectory since About a Boy.
neutral · AI labelView post →Without saying Heretic favorite Hugh Grant movie About a Boy
positive · AI labelView post →About a Boy is such an important movie to me. So many things I love about it
positive · AI labelView post →wait, did the United States government write the film "ABOUT A BOY"
neutral · AI labelView post →Introduce yourself with: One book: Runaway, Alice Munro One film: About A Boy One album: The Dismemberment Plan, Emergency & I One TV show: The Rehearsal (this is impossible)
neutral · AI labelView post →One of my favourite weird film names in translation is this German one: 'About a Boy oder: Der Tag der toten Ente' [About a Boy or: The Day of the Dead Duck]
neutral · AI labelView post →#JuneMovieChallrnge #FilmSky 🎥 Movie with a duck in it. About a Boy (2002)
neutral · AI labelView post →Amazing that Lex Luthor in the latest Superman movie is also the kid from "About a Boy."
neutral · AI labelView post →I still can’t believe the kid from About a Boy turned out to be a mega handsome movie star. I would have taken all the bets back in 2002 and lost.
neutral · AI labelView post →Choose one film from each of your 30 favourite directors. Name of the film and director, along with a still. 22/30 Film: About a Boy Director: Paul and Chris Weitz #Filmsky🎥 #MovieSky #directorchallenge #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →About A Boy is a nice little film, to be fair.
positive · AI labelView post →#OnThisDay 2002 Silent Sigh by Badly Drawn Boy was released Internationally It was from his soundtrack album for the movie About A Boy Badly Drawn Boy was born in Dunstable but grew up in Breightmet,Bolton He won the 2000 Mercury Music prize for his album The Hour Of The Bewilderbeast
neutral · AI labelView post →Did not know that About a Boy was a play on Nirvana's About a Girl! Also, this is going to be even more removed because the film excised a lot of the Nirvana subplot, if I remember right.
neutral · AI labelView post →The main reason I consider About A Boy to be a Christmas film youtu.be/EerNlcxBJyU?...
neutral · AI labelView post →Damn, Juror #2 was a really good movie. I hope more people check it out when it hits streaming later this year (it's supposed to be on HBOMAX around Christmas). And what a treat to see Toni Collette and Nicholas Hoult sharing the screen again 22 years after About a Boy.
neutral · AI labelView post →Then, one day, you realise the handsome young actor with piercing blue eyes in the film you're watching was the weird little kid in About A Boy, and Stewart Lee has turned into a large old Cornish fisherman.
neutral · AI labelView post →📽️ About a Boy (2002) - the second in my list of 'Films That Live With Me'. Saw this is the cinema with my wife in Swindon in the early 2000s. I bought the DVD soon after. I think this is probably only the second time I've watched it at home #FilmSky therealfilmcricket.wordpress.com/2026/11/02/a...
positive · AI labelView post →I unapologetically love this movie. Rob is my kind of anti-hero. An oblivious, insecure slacker. He’s a dickhead but not inherently a bad person. Will in About A Boy (also by Nick Hornby) is very similar and that is one of my all time favorite movies. Rob is the male Carrie Bradshaw. #HATM
positive · AI labelView post →Lovely, well-casted, written & performed. Charming & so very, very human. ❤️ About a Boy (film) - Wikipedia share.google/p7pC6RIy9nMC...
positive · AI labelView post →I've been a fan of Nick Hornby ever since reading his memoir, Fever Pitch (he also wrote the screenplay for the 1997 film version). High Fidelity is a fantastic novel, as are About a Boy and Juliet, Naked. He even has 2 Oscar nominations for his screenplays for An Education and Brooklyn.
neutral · AI labelView post →Just watched About a Boy here. Fav Xmas film #JoinIn
positive · AI labelView post →That's right, 2002's About A Boy is a Christmas movie in the same vein of It's A Wonderful Life.
neutral · AI labelView post →www.youtube.com/watch?v=HivQ... Happy Friday, #BlueCrew, #Resisters, the rest of the Bluesky(i)ers, another song that was in the new Bridget Jones movie, Mad About A Boy....
neutral · AI labelView post →www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMaE... Happy Thursday, #BlueCrew, #Resisters, the rest of the Bluesky(i)ers.....This was in the new Bridget Jones, Mad About A Boy movie, which I loved. Nice end to that series of movies.
neutral · AI labelView post →About a Boy is a great film.
positive · AI labelView post →My yearly holiday movie is "About a Boy." Great movie, great message, not saccharine, just totally perfect
positive · AI labelView post →which actor's career would you like to have? probably some recency-bias here, but mine is Hugh Grant (watching About a Boy right now) i think that was his first film where he broke out of the RomCom mold... and love so many of his roles since then
neutral · AI labelView post →A tad frustrating to say the least. Here's some exciting news for you - one of my Films That Influenced Me articles is written and ready and it is.....RoboCop! Film 13 on my list - not 13th just 13th in chronological order. Mind you the next one is 'Films That Live With Me' and that is About a Boy
neutral · AI labelView post →What is your favorite sappy movie? I must default to most any RomCom starring Hugh Grant and the stellar supporting casts of those movies. Especially "About A Boy".
neutral · AI labelView post →Many, many years ago I read the book About A Boy. Then I watched the movie adaptation when it came out. Today was the day I learned that Nicholas Hoult was the boy in the movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →The movie Hugh Grant should have won an Oscar About A Boy.
neutral · AI labelView post →I caught a bit of the Superman film with that bloke that was the kid in About a Boy(?) playing Lex Luthor. There's so much going on at the same time, it's a bombardment of things flying around, exploding, getting punched etc etc. Also, wasn't there a travelling to a different dimension bit too?🤷
neutral · AI labelView post →Donna & Blitzen - Badly Drawn Boy 🎶🎄🦌 I think this is such a beautiful song. It’s from the movie About A Boy. I love the strings in it, and how it fades at the end then comes back. youtu.be/VlgqFlZjQJQ?...
neutral · AI labelView post →About A Boy. I love that film.
positive · AI labelView post →About A Boy might be my favorite ever movie
positive · AI labelView post →About a Boy is a Christmas film.
neutral · AI labelView post →The English film of course far superior to the US remake. Loved his High Fidelity book, the movie was nothing to write home about. Of course About A Boy, book & film, amazing!
positive · AI labelView post →LOL, I'm considering Shake Ya Ass, Mystikal from About a Boy (though I know that's not the right song from that movie, sue me)
neutral · AI labelView post →George Clooney & Annette Bening filming "In Love" in Westfield, NJ today. The film, directed by Paul Weitz ("About a Boy"), adapts Amy Bloom's 2022 memoir "In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss," which tells of her husband Brian Ameche's Alzheimer's diagnosis and assisted suicide at 66 Pics: Bobby Bank
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