About a Boy

film by Chris and Paul Weitz [2002]

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Grant

  • Hugh Grant
    In Hugh Grant: Bridget Jones’s Diary and Love Actually

    His later films included About a Boy (2002), an adaptation of Nick Hornby’s novel; Love Actually (2003); and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004). In 2007 Grant starred opposite Drew Barrymore as an aging pop star in Music and Lyrics. He next appeared in Did You Hear About…

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Hoult

  • Nicholas Hoult
    In Nicholas Hoult: Early life and first roles

    …it was his second film, About a Boy (2002), made when he was 12 years old, that brought him international attention. In the comedy, which was based on a novel by Nick Hornby, he portrayed a nerdy child with “Vulcan” eyebrows who is taken under the wing of an unlikely…

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Weisz

  • Rachel Weisz
    In Rachel Weisz

    Enemy at the Gates (2001), About a Boy (2002; based on a novel by Nick Hornby), and the suspense film Runaway Jury (2003). In The Constant Gardener, which was based on a novel by John le Carré, Weisz’s character is murdered at the beginning of the film, which follows efforts…

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