About a Boy
Growing up has nothing to do with age.
Will Freeman is a good-looking, smooth-talking bachelor whose primary goal in life is avoiding any kind of responsibility.But when he invents an imaginary son in order to meet attractive single moms, Will gets a hilarious lesson about life from a bright, but hopelessly geeky 12-year-old named Marcus.
- Director
- Paul Weitz
- Worldwide
- $129M
Who's in it
Cast
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Story overview
What It's About
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Will Freeman is a good-looking, smooth-talking bachelor whose primary goal in life is avoiding any kind of responsibility. But when he invents an imaginary son in order to meet attractive single moms, Will gets a hilarious lesson about life from a bright, but hopelessly geeky 12-year-old named Marcus. Now, as Will struggles to teach Marcus the art of being cool, Marcus teaches Will that you're never too old to grow up.
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The numbers
Box Office & Release
About a Boy returned 4.8× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $27M
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
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- Worldwide gross
- $129M
- Release date
- Apr 26, 2002
- Runtime
- 1h 41m
- MPAA rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- Germany, France
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