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unusual facts about About a Boy


Thomas Seckford

In the film About a Boy starring Hugh Grant the main character, Will, lives in a flat in No.1


Under an Hour

Consisting of three instrumental tracks, the album is considered to be an experimental soundtrack along the lines of Peter Gabriel's Passion or Badly Drawn Boy's soundtrack for About a Boy.


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Calamity James

It is about a boy, named Calamity James (a pun on Calamity Jane), who has disastrous luck.

Cornelis Johannes Kieviet

He was born in Hoofddorp and is best known for his stories about a boy named Dik Trom.

Epaminondas and His Auntie

The eponymous character is a young black boy, and the stories are based on a folk tales from the Southern states of the U.S. Like Helen Bannerman's The Story of Little Black Sambo, which was originally written about a boy from Southern India but was later illustrated in many printings with stereotypes of African-Americans, the Epaminondas books have been criticised as having racist overtones and stereotypes.

Ernest Jarrold

He eventually became a staff writer, and began writing short stories about a boy named "Mickey Finn" growing up in the Irish section of bucolic Rondout, New York, where he had lived previously with his wife and children.

Home Movie Day

Think of Me First as a Person, an amateur documentary about a boy with Down syndrome, was shown at the New Orleans event in August 2006 and added to the National Film Registry in December 2006.

Joe Jitsu

The strip, drawn by Wayne Thompson, who was also the artist for The Beanos Billy Whizz and Jak in The Dandy, was about a boy who had a black belt in Karate.

KXY

Kyle XY, an American television drama series about a boy named Kyle, who has no memory of his life up until that point

New York Jewish Film Festival

The 2011 Festival presented three restored films: Lies My Father Told Me (dir. Ján Kadár), a 1975 film about a boy living in a Montreal Jewish community in the 1920s; the 1956 film Singing in the Dark (dir. Max Nosseck), one of the first American feature films to dramatize the Holocaust, starring Moishe Oysher as a concentration camp survivor; and the 1930 Tevye (dir. Maurice Schwartz), restored with new English subtitles.

Parkpoom Wongpoom

Parkpoom's second film, In the Eyes, a 14-minute short about a boy's first sexual experience, was also featured at many festivals, including the Asiexpo in Lyon, France, the Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival, the Pusan International Film Festival, the Canadian World Wide Short Film Festival, Flickerfest in Australia and the Solothurn Film Festival.

The Unwritten

Wilson wrote a series of books about a boy wizard called Tommy Taylor, filled with fantasy, even being compared to the Harry Potter series.

Vijay Bedi

In 2011, Vijay Bedi did the cinematography for a Budhia Singh starrer documentary film called the Marathon Boy, a story about a boy from a countryside in Orissa; the film was funded by HBO & BBC.