About a Boy/American Dreamz [2 Discs]About a Boy/American Dreamz [2 Discs]

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DVD FEATURES:
  • Region: 1
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 (Cinemascope)
  • Screen: Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV
  • Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1
  • Features:
    • About a Boy:
    • Deleted scenes
    • Feature commentary with directors Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz
    • Badly Drawn Boy music video
    • "Santa's Super Sleigh" music video
    • Spotlight on Location: The Making of About a Boy
    • English to English dictionary
    • American Dreamz:
    • Deleted scenes
    • Center Stage: Sally Kendoo
    • Dance Dreamz
    • Feature commentary with director Paul Weitz and actor Sam Golzari
AWARDS
  • Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
  •     Nominated Best Adapted Screenplay - 2002 (Chris Weitz, Paul Weitz, Peter Hedges)
  • American Film Institute
  •     Won Top Ten Movie of the Year - 2002
  • Broadcast Film Critics Association
  •     Nominated Best Young Actor/Actress - 2003 (Nicholas Hoult)
  •     Nominated Best Young Performer - 2002 (Nicholas Hoult)
  • Hollywood Foreign Press Association
  •     Nominated Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comed - 2002 (Hugh Grant)
  •     Nominated Best Picture - Musical or Comedy - 2002
  • Toronto Film Critics Association
  •     Won Best Supporting Actress [Runner-up] - 2002 (Toni Collette)
  • Writers Guild of America
  •     Nominated Best Adapted Screenplay - 2002 (Chris Weitz, Paul Weitz, Peter Hedges)
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REVIEW:
  • A thoroughly pleasant but decidedly un-romantic comedy boasting another witty star turn from Hugh Grant, this Nick Hornby adaptation belongs to the increasingly common subgenre of hybrid British-American comedy-dramas that are easy enough going down, but may leave viewers with a few naggingly unresolved character arcs and motivations. As a funny, involving tale of redemption for a lazy, spoiled lad edging toward middle age, About a Boy succeeds. Hugh Grant is one of the few actors since Cary Grant who can remain likeable even as he's committing near-despicable acts of dishonesty, and directors Chris and Paul Weitz have found a perfect foil for him in the disarmingly guileless Nicholas Hoult. They've also managed to make their first genuinely stylish film, shot with grainy aplomb by Remi Adefarasin (less successful are editor Nick Moore's showy jump cuts and wipe transitions). But their script, written with Peter Hedges, leaves something to be desired in its romantic half. By the time About a Boy reveals the charming but ineffectual love interest Rachel Weisz, audiences may be long past the point of caring if, when, or with whom its cad of a protagonist is going to settle down. It doesn't help that the luminous Toni Collette, though saddled with a frump of a role, walks off with every scene she's in, and has unlimited depth and chemistry with Grant. Though the Weitz brothers have proven that they have heart to spare when it comes to their lovelorn heroes -- American Pie proved as much -- ultimately, they're not as democratic when it comes to some of their supporting characters, and engaging as it is, About a Boy can't help but suffer as a result. ~ Michael Hastings, Rovi

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