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About a Boy is a 2002 comedy-drama film directed by Paul Weitz and Chris Weitz, who co-wrote the screenplay with Peter Hedges. It is an adaptation of the 1998 novel by Nick Hornby. The film stars Hugh Grant, Nicholas Hoult, Toni Collette, and Rachel Weisz.
- “There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he had learnt that some hard things became softer after a very little while.”
- “This thing about looking for someone less different... It only really worked, he realized, if you were convinced that being you wasn't so bad in the first place.”
- “Loving people, and allowing yourself to be loved, was only worth the risk if the odds were in your favor, but they quite clearly weren't. There were about seventy-nine squillion people in the world, and if you were very lucky, you would end up being loved by fifteen or twenty of them.
- “The point is you keep going. You want to. So all the things that make you want to are the point.” ― Nick Hornby, About a Boy.
Dakota and Will; Will and Marcus; Fiona and Will; Fiona and Marcus; Dakota and Fiona; Will and Samantha
The duck Marcus accidentally kills with a loaf of bread becomes symbolic for him. When Marcus kills the duck, he admits to himself that “he’d been trying to hit it on the head with a piece of sandwich, but he tried to do all sorts of things, and none of them had ever happened before” (54).
Marcus is a 12-year-old, introverted and eccentric boy with a depressed and suicidal mother, Fiona (Toni Collette). At the picnic, Marcus accidentally kills a duck with a stale loaf of bread while trying to feed it, and when a park keeper questions him about it, Will tries to pass it off (the duck) as already dead whilst trying to sink the body ...
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Jan 25, 2024 · About a Boy is a 2002 film about a cynical, immature young man who is taught how to act like a grown-up by a little boy. Directed by Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz. Written by Nick Hornby (novel) and Peter Hedges (screenplay). Growing up has nothing to do with age.
