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About A Boy DVD

Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Growing up has nothing to do with age Will (Grant) is a 38-year old Londoner living a bachelor lifestyle on the back of royalties earned from a Christmas song penned by his father some years previously A serial womaniser Will comes up with the idea of attending a single parents group as a new way to pick up women Inventing a two-year old son for himself he meets lonely bullied schoolboy Marcus (Nicholas Hoult) and his depressed music therapist mother (Toni Collette) The intelligent Marcus soon learns Will&s secret and so blackmails him into letting him hang out at his place and watch afternoon telly However what starts out as an uneasy quiz show watching alliance turns into an
unlikely friendship Feature Commentary with Directors Chris and Paul Weitz&Making Of& FeaturetteDeleted Scenes with Directors& CommentaryBadly Drawn Boy Music VideosInterview with Badly Drawn BoyDVD-Rom features ActorsHugh Grant Toni Collette Rachel Weisz Sharon Small Madison Cook Jordan Cook Nicholas Hoult Nat Gastiain Tena Victoria Smurfit Nicholas Hutchison Ryan Speechley Joseph Speechley Natalia Tena Laura Kennington & Tanika Swaby DirectorChris Weitz & Paul Weitz Certificate12 years and over Year2002 Screen Widescreen 2351 Anamorphic LanguagesEnglish - Dolby Digital (51) Subtitles English ; English For The Hearing Impaired Closed CaptionsYes Duration1 hour and 37 minutes (approx) RegionRegion 2 - Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Growing up has nothing to do with age Will (Grant) is a 38-year old Londoner living a bachelor lifestyle on the back of royalties earned from a Christmas song penned by his father some years previously A serial womaniser Will comes up with the idea of attending a single parents group as a new way to pick up women Inventing a two-year old son for himself he meets lonely bullied schoolboy Marcus (Nicholas Hoult) & his depressed music therapist mother (Toni Collette) The intelligent Marcus soon learns Will&s secret & so blackmails him into letting him hang out at his place & watch afternoon telly However what starts out as an uneasy quiz show watching alliance turns into an unlikely friendship Feature Commentary with Directors Chris & Paul Weitz& Making Of& Featurette Deleted Scenes with Directors& Commentary Badly Drawn Boy Music Videos Interview with Badly Drawn Boy DVD-Rom features Actors Hugh Grant Toni Collette Rachel Weisz Sharon Small Madison Cook Jordan Cook Nicholas Hoult Nat Gastiain Tena Victoria Smurfit Nicholas Hutchison Ryan Speechley Joseph Speechley Natalia Tena Laura Kennington & Tanika Swaby Director Chris Weitz & Paul Weitz Certificate 12 years & over Year 2002 Screen Widescreen 2351 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Subtitles English ; English For The Hearing Impaired Closed Captions Yes Duration 1 hour & 37 minutes (approx) Region Region 2
- Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players

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