Clip Photos Top cast Edit. Aaron Taylor-Johnson John as John. Kristin Scott Thomas Mimi as Mimi. Anne-Marie Duff Julia as Julia. Josh Bolt Pete as Pete. Ophelia Lovibond Marie as Marie. Angela Walsh Schoolmistress as Schoolmistress. Paul Ritter Popjoy as Popjoy. Richard Syms Reverend as Reverend.
James Johnson Stan as Stan. Angelica Jopling Julia - aged 8 as Julia - aged 8. Abby Greenhalgh Jackie - aged 6 as Jackie - aged 6. David Morrissey Bobby as Bobby. Richard Tate Teacher as Teacher. Sam Taylor-Johnson. Julia Baird memoir uncredited Matt Greenhalgh screenplay.
More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Biography Drama Music Romance. Rated R for language and a scene of sexuality. Did you know Edit. McCartney said that John Lennon didn't really ride on the top of the double-decker bus like he does in the script.
He also revealed that the character of Lennon's aunt, Mimi Smith, wasn't as mean and vitriolic like she was written in the script. Furthermore, the song "In Spite of All the Danger" wasn't written as an ode to Lennon's mother as the script suggests.
The flirtatious, flamboyant Julia has an almost incestuous relationship with her son, encouraging his interest in music, protecting him when he plays truant from school, introducing him to rock'n'roll and explaining its sexual connotations. In Freudian terms, the stern Mimi, a practitioner of what we now call "tough love", is at work on John's superego, while the rebellious Julia, offering unconditional love, is exciting his id.
In religious terms, they're his good and bad angels. Eventually, he treats both in a cruel manner and with a dismissive wit we now know to be characteristic. As Philip Larkin, who thought sexual intercourse began three years after Nowhere Boy ends and just before the Beatles' first LP, might have said, they fuck you up your mum and aunt, they do not mean to but they do.
Oddly enough, the music is the least significant part of the film. There are a few references to the later oeuvre, including John engaging in a sexual activity that was to be memorably if obliquely celebrated in the song "Penny Lane". We see him getting banjo lessons from Julia, buying his first guitar, forming the Quarrymen, giving himself an Elvis hairdo, switching to Buddy Holly-style hornrims, meeting Paul McCartney, being refused entry to the Cavern.
But rather than dwelling on the unique circumstances that produced a musical genius, it's an affecting movie about coming of age and leaving home, and about the radical changes in British life since the Second World War. Nowhere Boy. We arrive at the possibility that if Julia had always been there for him, he might not have been there for us. We reflect that even if all you need is love, that isn't always all you get. Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from until his death in In , he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism.
David Threlfall as Uncle George. Thomas Brodie Sangster as Paul. Aaron Johnson as John. Anne-Marie Duff as Julia. Kristin Scott Thomas as Mimi. Reviews Isn't he a bit like you and me? Roger Ebert October 13, Now streaming on:. Powered by JustWatch. What we do learn is that it could be said of the teenage John Lennon that he: Doesn't have a point of view, Knows not where he's going to, Isn't he a bit like you and me?
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