
About a Boy
2002

2 votes
Harry can’t fathom how the world around him operates. After his recycling efforts are dismissed, he embarks upon a quest with his classmates to save the planet… and the narwhals.
Director
Richard PriceWriter
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
N/A
Revenue
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Production Companies

At the beginning I thought this was just going to be one of those Greta Thunberg style pontifications saying green is good and everyone else is evil, but by layering this story from ridiculous to more ridiculous, it actually suggests a fair degree of commons sense at the end. It’s the young “Harry” (Louis Morris) who has been adopted by mums “Edith” (Aaliyah Warner) and “Marble” (Frankie Williams) and who is sick fed up of their refusal to recycle. Mum No. 1. is way to busy running her ball point pen and Exocet missiles businesses whilst No. 2 is just a yoga teaching natural litter lout. He tr…
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