A chronicle of John Lennon's first years, focused mainly in his adolescence and his relationship with his stern aunt Mimi, who raised him, and his absentee mother Julia, who re-entered his l... Read allA chronicle of John Lennon's first years, focused mainly in his adolescence and his relationship with his stern aunt Mimi, who raised him, and his absentee mother Julia, who re-entered his life at a crucial moment in his young life.A chronicle of John Lennon's first years, focused mainly in his adolescence and his relationship with his stern aunt Mimi, who raised him, and his absentee mother Julia, who re-entered his life at a crucial moment in his young life.
- Nominated for 4 BAFTA Awards
- 6 wins & 21 nominations total
Aaron Taylor-Johnson
- John
- (as Aaron Johnson)
Chris Coghill
- Cunard Yank
- (as Christopher Coghill)
- Director
- Writers
- Julia Baird(uncredited)
- Matt Greenhalgh
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaDirector Sam Taylor-Johnson consulted her friend Sir Paul McCartney about the script. 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.
- GoofsWhen Paul first saw John, John was singing "Come and go with me" not "Maggie Mae"
- ConnectionsFeatured in Breakfast: Episode dated 30 November 2009 (2009)
- SoundtracksWild One
Written by Johnny Greenan (as John Greenan), Johnny O'Keefe, Dave Owens
Published by (c) 1958 MPL Communications Inc.
Melody Lane Publications, Inc.
Performed by Jerry Lee Lewis
Licensed from Licencemusic.com ApS
Courtesy of Sun Entertainment Corporation
Featured review
The Boy Done Good!
This biopic of John Lennon, taking his story from his schooldays in Liverpool up until the departure of the nascent Beatles for Hamburg, is an exceptional movie, quite the best I have seen during 2009. The story is beautifully handled from beginning to end and the acting from the three main leads is superb. Aaron Johnson manages to portray Lennon's mixture of cockiness (in more ways than one!), aggression, painful vulnerability, bewilderment and sheer adolescent verve with great sureness of touch. We watch Lennon developing from school-kid into knowing young man, and we literally see a different face at the end of the movie to the one we did at the start. Superb playing by Johnson, brilliantly assisted by that of Kristin Scott Thomas as his Aunt Mimi and Anne-Marie Duff as his mother, Julia. It would have been all too easy to lapse into cliché with this story but this is largely avoided. We get glimpses of Liverpool - an opening on the steps of St George's Hall, a fleeting glimpse of Strawberry Fields, a shot of a ferry on the Mersey - but these glimpses are all we need. And the movie closes not with a rendition of an all too predictable 'Nowhere Man' but a beautifully performed 'In Spite of All the Danger'. They say it's a long way to the top if you wanna rock n' roll; in Nowhere Boy we can see where it, and we, all began.
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- flickernatic
- Dec 29, 2009
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- Also known as
- Tuổi Trẻ Của John Lennon
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $1,457,248
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $52,749
- Oct 10, 2010
- Gross worldwide
- $6,577,779
- Runtime1 hour 38 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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