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This is about John Lennon's teenage time, when he lived with his aunt Mimi. He has problems at school, encounters teddy boys, starts The Quarrymen and meets Paul and George.The story is a rhapsody, including Lennon's attempts to recontact his half-crazy mother. There's the triangle Mimi/Mum/John which finally brings an eruption. The heat is really on here and then, Lennon and The Beatles go to Hamburg.Entertaining certainly, but most credits go to Kristin Scott Thomas, which was to be expected. Kudos to the Liverpool accent, one of many thing Lennon taught us to love.

This film is about John Lennon's adolescent life before he makes it famous in the Beatles.Instead of focusing on his journey to make himself famous in the music industry, the film focuses on his childhood experiences and family dynamics. This provide grounds for some intense family drama, which is unexpectedly very well done. Kristin Scott Thomas delivers a great performance as always. She gives an emotional performance as the aunt who is torn by a love-hate relationship with John's mother, and by her huge responsibility towards John.Though the first half of the film is slow and flat, the intensity of the second half makes up for it. "Nowhere Boy" is an interesting look at John Lennon's adolescent life.

maybe, this is its basic good point. to give a story - mix of humor, sadness, drama of a young man looking for the right form of family, discovering music as answer. the second virtue - the atmosphere. that does it a film about more than John Lennon but about a time, the birth of a new era and the furies, fun and self definition of a teenager. but, maybe, more important, the performances of Kristin Scott Thomas and Thomas Brodie Sangster are the best ingredients of a story who has an only sin - the less courage to propose more than a familiar drama but a sensitive portrait of a young Lennon. a slice of life. this is the best definition of it. not remarkable . but nice.