Bovie Movie

A day in the life of a group of troubled 15-year-olds growing up in west London.

London’s most frequently eligible bachelor gets some lessons in growing up from a maladroit 12-year-old boy in this third big-screen adaptation of a Nick Hornby novel, directed and co-written by siblings Chris and Paul Weitz of American Pie fame. About a Boy concerns the parallel coming-of-age stories of the thirtysomething Will (Hugh Grant), a layabout “serial nice guy” living a posh, carefree lifestyle off his deceased father’s fortune; and the preteen Marcus (Nicholas Hoult), a bright but awkward youth who’s tired of his mom Fiona’s (Toni Collette) depressed, boyfriend-less state. Their paths collide when Will, deciding that single mothers are the easiest romantic conquests on the dating scene, fabricates a two-year-old son and joins a group called S.P.A.T. (Single Parents Alone Together). Marcus is wise to Will’s scheme, however, and through some incessant pestering and blackmail, he contrives for Will to date Fiona. Though Will doesn’t hit it off immediately with either Marcus or his mother, he gradually begins to open up to the people around him — so much so that he attracts the attention of another attractive single mom (Rachel Weisz). A U.S./U.K. co-production of Robert DeNiro’s Tribeca Films and Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner’s Working Title (the company responsible for the Grant-related Four Weddings and a Funeral and Bridget Jones’s Diary), About a Boy was co-written by What’s Eating Gilbert Grape creator Peter Hedges.

A man struggles to get a grip on a life that’s spinning out of control in this emotional comedy drama. Dave Spritz (Nicolas Cage) is a television weatherman on a high-profile Chicago news program. Professionally, Dave is doing just fine — he makes great money for a job that demands little effort, and he has a shot at an assignment with a network morning news and chat show. But Dave’s personal life leaves a lot to be desired — his father, respected author Robert Spritzel (Michael Caine), is in failing health, he’s divorced from his wife, Noreen (Hope Davis), and his relationship with his children is tenuous at best, especially his overweight daughter, Shelly (Gemmenne de la Pena). If Dave is to land his new job, he’ll have to move to New York City, and with his time in Chicago running short, he dedicates himself to trying to salvage his ties with his family before it’s too late, though he discovers this is even harder than he imagines.

Actor and author Richard E. Grant made his directorial debut with this period comedy drama inspired by his own experiences growing up in colonial Africa in the sixties. Ralph Compton (Zachary Fox) is the 11-year old son of Harry (Gabriel Byrne), the minister of education in the British-controlled African nation of Swaziland. While Harry is a likeable and well-connected man, his marriage to Lauren (Miranda Richardson) is on shaky ground, and when he learns she’s been having an affair with one of his best friends, she leaves him and he begins drinking heavily. Harry sends Ralph to boarding school when things start to get unpleasant, and after two years he returns home to discover that some changes have been made. Ralph (now played by Nicholas Hoult) finds that his father is still drinking, but seems a more relaxed and better adjusted man — and has just remarried, having tied the knot with Ruby (Emily Watson), a former stewardess from America. Ralph naturally resists Ruby’s presence in the house, but the two become close, as Ruby indicates that she understands Ralph better than anyone else (and he senses the same). Meanwhile, the British start to withdraw from Swaziland. Wah-Wah received its world premiere at the 2005 Edinburgh Film Festival.