About a boy
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About a Boy
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"No man is an island, entire of itself.""Growing up is about aiming to be who you want to be, even if it takes time.
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Hugh GrantToni ColetteRachel Weisz
Release Date: May 2002Directed by Paul & Chris Weitz Genre: Romentic comedy-drama film
Experience the heartwarming journey of 'About a Boy,' as an unlikely friendship between a carefree bachelor and a socially awkward boy teaches them valuable lessons about love, friendship, and family in London..
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Istituto Istruzione Superiore Schiaparelli-GramsciMilano
- What do you predict this film will be about from its title About a Boy?
- What do you think the expression 'no man is an island" means?
- How are the lives of teenagers usually depicted on film?
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STORY
- Why does Will not have to work?
- Why does Will join the Single Parents Alone Together support group?
- Why does Will pretend he has a two-year-old son?
- Why is Marcus bullied at school?
- How does Will first meet Marcus?
After viewing
SOCIAL ISSUES
- How does the film explore family relationships? Do you think it was effective? Why/Why not?
- How does the film explore bullying? Do you think it was effective? Why/Why not?
Will Freeman lives a carefree lifestyle without any responsibility or ties, and his only motiviation in life is to find women to sleep on a strictly casual basis. His income is derived from the royalties of a song his father wrote 40 years ago. In order to meet single mothers, whom he sees as a good potential source for sex, he joins a single parents' support group inventing a two-year-old son. There he meets Suzie who introduces Will to her friend Fiona and son Marcus. Marcus turns Will's life around by showing him how vain and empty his life really is. Marcus is also bullied at school because he is a little different and Will helps him to blend in more with the others by buying him a cool pair of trainers. Will comes to realise that Marcus is the only person he has ever really cared about and this changes him from being a totally self-absorbed, vain person to a more likeable, humane one. Likewise, the boy helps the man grow up.
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