ABOUT A BOY – (DVD)

Will Freeman (Hugh Grant) lives a very comfortable and leisurely lifestyle in London thanks to substantialroyaltiesleft to him from the successful Christmas song that his father composed. Will does not need to work and spends most of his free time watching television, and reading about pop culture. When Wills friends, Christine (Sharon Small) and John (Nicholas Hutchinson), ask him to be the godfather of their second child, Will bluntly refuses, insisting that he really is that shallow. In an attempt to avoid spending time with the couple, Will meets Angie (Isabel Brook), a single mother, but the two only share a brief relationship which, to Wills surprise actually ends amicably. Afterward, Will comes up with the idea of attending a single-parents group called SPAT (Single Parents Alone Together) to meet potential female partners. As part of his ploy, he claims to have a two-year-old son named Ned. His plan succeeds and he meets Suzie (Victoria