About a Boy 2002  PG-13, 100 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Chris Weitz, Paul Weitz
Cast: Hugh Grant, Toni Collette, Rachel Weisz, Nicholas Hoult, Sharon Small, Madison & Jordan Cook, Nicholas Hutchinson, Ryan & Joseph Speechley, Natalia Tena, Laura Kennington, Tanika Swaby, Peter McNicholl, Christopher Webster, Ben Ridgeway, Victoria Smurfit
Will Freeman (Hugh Grant) is a young man in his 30s whose life is going nowhere. But, that all turns around when troubled 12-year-old Marcus (Nicholas Hutchinson) attaches himself to Will and changes Will's life forever. Will and Marcus meet when Will joins S.P.A.T. (Single Parents Alone Together) as a means to meet single women. Will fabricates a story about having a two-year-old son, but Marcus catches on to Will's scheme and urges him to date his own depressed mother Fiona (Toni Collette). That doesn't work, and it doesn't take long before Will falls for single mom Rachel (Rachel Weisz), and now he tries to pass Marcus off as his son. A bad plan–but when Will tries to make it up to Marcus, he finally grows up.
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Dear Frankie 2004 PG-13, 102 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Shona Auerbach
Cast: Emily Mortimer, Jack McElhone, Gerard Butler, Sharon Small, Mary Riggans, Sophie Main, Katy Murphy, Anne Marie Timoney, Sean Brown, Jayd Johnson, Carolyn Calder, Anna Hepburn
Single mom Lizzie (Emily Mortimer) has been corresponding with her nine-year-old son, Frankie (Jack McElhone), through make-believe letters in his father's name. Now, in preparation for a meeting between father and son, Lizzie hires a stranger (Gerard Butler) to masquerade as Frankie's dad.
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| 1. About a Boy (2002)
2. Dear Frankie (2004)
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