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Nowhere boy

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Curiousmama · 02/10/2011 22:54

Anyone else watching? My mum told me to as she'd seen it and loved it. Tbh I didn't know any of the early history of JL? Poor lad.

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mycatsaysach · 02/10/2011 23:54

quite a good film wasn't it? def worth watching.

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bemybebe · 03/10/2011 00:16

oooh, which channel was/is it?

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mycatsaysach · 03/10/2011 00:16

channel 4 started at 10 tho

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bemybebe · 03/10/2011 00:21

guess it will go on my lovefilm list then Smile

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LeBOF · 03/10/2011 00:34

It was good. He had a hard life. He was much better-looking in this film though...

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crazynanna · 03/10/2011 00:40

Agree LeBof...they flopped in the looks dept with the guy who played Paul though Smile

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mycatsaysach · 03/10/2011 00:41

that was thomas sangster crazy - feather boy??
i thought it was v similar to control - then saw it had the same writer

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diddl · 03/10/2011 12:01

I missed the beginning -did it exo´plain why he wasn´t with his mum?

But then it seemed to be a bit mum=fun Mimi=no fun, so I gave up as presumably she was doing her best for him.

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mycatsaysach · 03/10/2011 13:21

yh it did about half way through.
his mum and dad split and they gave him the choice who to live with - when he was about 5.
he chose his dad but as he had already been pushed between the both of them mimi decided to 'kidnap' him.

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diddl · 03/10/2011 14:11

I suppose none of the "main players" are around to give the story so a lot of it is interpretation & hearsay.

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mycatsaysach · 03/10/2011 14:15

was supposed to be based on younger sisters' memoir

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diddl · 03/10/2011 14:17

His mother or a different sister?

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mycatsaysach · 03/10/2011 14:27

his younger half sister julia - although i haven't read the book and it is not credited in the film

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Curiousmama · 03/10/2011 19:13

I'd forgotten about his mum Sad Enjoyed movie though did have a little weep at the end especially when he said Mimi was both parent and guardian.

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slartybartfast · 03/10/2011 20:06

it was good. i was hooked.
he was rather good looking but the paul mccartney actor, he surely was just too young

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slartybartfast · 03/10/2011 20:06

and me too, a little watering of the eyes Sad

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Curiousmama · 03/10/2011 20:50

the paul mcartney actor is 21!! He was the kid in About a boy.

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Curiousmama · 03/10/2011 20:51

he'll have been 19 then in 2009

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Curiousmama · 03/10/2011 20:52

no wasn't boy in about a boy he was in notting hill (goes to check Blush )

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Curiousmama · 03/10/2011 20:58

Thomas Sangster and Love Actually Grin

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Curiousmama · 03/10/2011 20:59

but he is 21 and was 19 in movie Nowhere boy.

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slartybartfast · 03/10/2011 21:42

ok ok, wasnt he from Feather boy/
he was too small then Grin

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slartybartfast · 03/10/2011 21:44

i see, he was from Nanny McPhee.
time flies i spose.

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Curiousmama · 03/10/2011 22:11

he has a very cute face Smile

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upahill · 07/10/2011 22:01

I watched the film a while ago and enjoyed it.
I have just watched it with DS1.
I did read that Sam Taylor Wood had wanted to make Mimi even more sterner but toned it down after Paul Mc. said that Mimi was 'mock - strict'

you do know that the guy that played JL is STW's real life partner.

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