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About a Boy

IMDB Rating: 7.40
29117 votes

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Storyline
Will Freeman is a hip Londoner who one day realizes that his friends are all involved with the responsibilities of married life and that leaves him alone in the cold. Passing himself as a single father, he starts to meet a string of single mums, confident in his ability to leave them behind when they start to ask for a commitment. But Will's hope of a continued bachelorhood is interrupted when he meets 12-year old Marcus, in many ways his complete opposite.
Actors
WillHugh Grant
Marcus BrewerNicholas Hoult
Fiona BrewerToni Collette

The Man Without a Face

IMDB Rating: 6.40
5847 votes

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Storyline
The story of a relationship between a teacher and his troubled pupil. Justin McLeod is a former teacher who lives as a recluse on the edge of town. His face is disfigured from an automobile accident and fire ten years before in which a boy was incinerated and for which he was convicted of involuntary manslaughter. He is also suspected of being a pedophile. He is befriended by Chuck, causing the town's suspicion and hostility to be ignited. McLeod inculcates in his protege a love of justice and freedom from prejudice which sustains him beyond the end of the film.
Actors
Justin McLeodMel Gibson
Charles E. 'Chuck' NorstadtNick Stahl
Catherine PalinMargaret Whitton