About a Boy
Rating = B+
Another Nick Hornby book about a
character caught in a rut he thinks is the life he desires and is
released through the intervention of someone he is confused or
ambivalent about being close to. The movie follows the book quite
closely until the end when probably the book ending was too diffuse to
work in a movie, but the movie ending is a slight let down from the
level of the rest of the movie, perhaps because the screen writer
hasn't got the story telling skill the book author does.
[2002-05-17]