
Watch About a Boy
- TV-PG
- 2014
- 2 Seasons
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7.4 (8,482)
About A Boy is an American TV version of the British movie of the same name starring Hugh Grant and Toni Collette. About A Boy, the TV show, starts like the movie with a single mother with one son moving next door to a lazy young man. The young man is lazy because a song that he wrote was a Top Ten hit. The young man develops a relationship with the son. The unmarried mother can't stand the young man and most of the show is related to their conflicting personalities. There are some differences between the TV show and the movie. The TV show takes place in San Francisco. There is a dumb waiter that connects their apartments. The young man is an American and does appear to have some adult friends. There are some similarities. The unmarried mother is still British. The son is still kind of weird and needs to loosen up. The young man learns from his relationship with the son.