About a Boy

Children are about the last thing Will Freeman, 36 years old and a committed single, wants. He lives well and lazily on the royalties of a Christmas song his father composed in 1938. He spends his days doing nothing, and in the evenings he tries to find young, single and good-looking mothers for a change. Marcus, at twelve years old, has quite different problems. His parents have separated, and his mother has a frightening tendency to cry at breakfast. She also hates sneakers on children's feet. The wrong clothes, the wrong haircut and a musical inclination for Joni Mitchell inherited from his mother make Marcus an outsider at school. Fortunately, fate brings him together with Will, who is an expert in fashion and pop music and football. Marcus soon realizes how useful Will is to him in building a new personality.