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Review #7557 - Dated: 5th of February, 2013
Author: kymmage |
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.
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