This film has Hugh Grant playing an obnoxious lout who winds up befriending a young boy. This film is now available on video, but I finaly saw it because of its Oscar nomination for adapted screenplay. I suppose the screenplay is fairly well written and the supporting performance by Toni Collette as the boys mother is quite good. Grant, however, seems stuck in his mannerisms that continue to make him anoying as an actor. GRADE: B
Review of About a Boy
