Top credits Director Sam Taylor-Johnson. See more at IMDbPro. Trailer Nowhere Boy: Trailer 2. Nowhere Boy. 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. In the end, they agreed that it's a movie rather than documentary, so Taylor-Johnson made inferences that weren't always there.
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User reviews 94 Review. Top review. Careful he might hear you Upon reading other comments, this film clearly polarizes viewers. I suggest you read the comment by someone called Phantom Fan who sums up a lot of the story and emotional content quite well in my opinion. As a result I need not repeat. I am old enough to remember the Beatles in their climb to fame, but this film is not about that.
The film is about John Lennon at This seems to annoy some viewers. So whining about the film not being about John Lennon at 25 and not being about The Beatles seems as though someone did not pay attention to the film's advertising information.
What we do have however is a superb production set in the mid s as rock n roll grabbed teens and John Lennon aged 15 realized some emotional hard truths about his family and himself. There used to be a piece of apparatus like that in every home at a time when radios were expensive items and transistors a thing of the future.
It now seems as remote as a crystal set. The movie is framed by two crucial funerals and dominated by two women. The first funeral is that of Uncle George who dies of a heart attack, the second of John's mother, Julia Anne-Marie Duff , killed in a road accident.
The women are Aunt Mimi, with whom John has lived since the age of four, and Julia, who virtually abandoned him in After the first funeral, John is reunited with his mother, who returns to become a dominant figure in his life; at the second, he realises he must break away and start an independent life as a musician.
There are also two contrasted visits to Blackpool involving Julia, one a flashback to John's early childhood. Aunt Mimi is a prim, lower-middle-class housewife, childless and bringing up John as a son, trying to instil petit bourgeois values into him but spurning serious ambition.
She's got him into Quarry Bank, a solid grammar school that shortly before had produced two eminent intellectuals, the future Labour cabinet ministers Peter Shore and Bill Rodgers. Mimi's austere, neatly kept home is contrasted with the lively, messy household of mother Julia, now married with two daughters, her husband a decent quiet man David Morrissey , who is in his way as long-suffering as Uncle George.
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.
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