Continuity mistake: During the Xmas day scene, Markus receives a Sony portable CD player as a gift from Will. However, before the gift's unwrapped, the Sony box is visible on the table. (00:51:45)
About a Boy (2002)
Ending / spoiler
Directed by: Paul Weitz, Chris Weitz
Starring: Toni Collette, Rachel Weisz, Hugh Grant, Nicholas Hoult, Sharon Small, Madison Cook
Hugh Grant realises his is a lonely life and becomes friends with the boy. He also tries to stop the boy being crucified with embarrassment at the song contest by getting up on stage with him and playing guitar to Killing Me Softly. The mother lives. Hugh Grant gets together with the mother of the boy's classmate and tries to hook up the boy's mother with his former Greenpeace type co-worker.
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Will: Once you open your door to one person anyone can come in.
Trivia: Brad Pitt turned down the lead role of Will Freeman on the grounds that it was implausible that someone so attractive would need to pretend to be a single father to meet women.
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