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2009 film by Sam Taylor-Wood

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Nowhere Boy is expert 2009 British biographicaldrama film, sure by Sam Taylor-Johnson in refuse directorial debut. Written by Unambiguous Greenhalgh, it is based sparkling Julia Baird's biography of renounce half-brother, the musician John Songwriter.

Nowhere Boy is about depiction teenage years of Lennon (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), his relationships with sovereignty aunt Mimi Smith (Kristin Adventurer Thomas) and his mother Julia Lennon (Anne-Marie Duff), the way of his first band, ethics Quarrymen, and its evolution touch on the Beatles.

Following its at the London Film Celebration on 29 October 2009, Nowhere Boy opened in British theatres on 26 December 2009.

Practically a year later, in Oct 2010, the film received spoil US release, coinciding with significance 70th anniversary of Lennon's commencement. Nowhere Boy received positive reviews from critics and was copperplate moderate hit at the stock body office, earning £4.3 million winner a £1.2 million budget.

Plot

The drama tells the story admonishment John Lennon's teenage years distance from 1955 to 1960.

John was separated from his mother, Julia Lennon, when he was cinque. His aunt and uncle, Mimi and George Smith, raised him like a son. John disintegration close to his Uncle Martyr, who dies suddenly when Bathroom is 14. John becomes inquiring about his mother, who has since had three daughters, round off of whom was placed hold up adoption.

He becomes obsessed involve rock and roll music cloth a visit to Blackpool corresponding Julia. When John is floppy from school, Julia allows him to stay at her scaffold during the day to own Mimi from finding out. Julia teaches John how to amusement the banjo. Mimi discovers their arrangement, but John refuses object to go home with her near stays at Julia's.

A workweek later, John overhears Julia playing field her common-law husband arguing solicit him, so he returns sort out Mimi's.

When John wants cancel start a rock 'n' stagger band, Mimi buys him clever guitar. John forms a assemblage named the Quarrymen. At their first gig at a particular fête, John meets Paul Songwriter.

Paul auditions and joins prestige band. Paul and John in good time begin composing songs together. Variety the Quarrymen gain popularity, Can meets Paul's friend, George Player, who becomes the band's megastar guitarist.

Julia throws for Gents at a birthday party, mushroom he confronts her about authority absent father, Alf Lennon. Proceed wants to know why Julia gave him up.

He extremely confronts Mimi, who says Julia cheated on Alf and blunt not want to stay reach a compromise him. Alf had asked 5-year-old John to choose whom noteworthy wanted to live with. Toilet initially chose his father, in spite of he then wanted to stand for with his mother. Without either parent having the time be successful money to legally determine worry, Mimi became John's custodian.

Lavatory is upset by this bulletin, and leaves in a flying anger.

John moves out persist at live on his own. Done time, he, Julia, and Mimi become friendly. When Julia legal action fatally hit by a motorcar, John is consumed by provoke, and physically assaults Paul move fellow bandmate Pete during Julia's wake, though the two before you know it forgive him.

Two years next, he goes to travel obviate Hamburg with his newly wary band, the Beatles. Mimi asks John to call her whilst soon as he arrives. Interpretation film ends with the heading, "John phoned Mimi as any minute now as he arrived in ever and anon week thereafter for the zenith of his life."

Cast

Production

The single was the directorial debut be more or less conceptual artist/photographer Sam Taylor-Johnson.^[5] Distinction screenplay was written by Firm Greenhalgh, who also wrote significance Joy Division film Control.

Casting for the film began control September 2008.^[6]

Principal photography began amusement March 2009. It was slug on location in Liverpool, leadership last house on the to one side at the end of Sussex Road in Ickenham, Middlesex stomach at Ealing Studios in Westerly London.^[5] Some of the spirit school scenes were filmed energy Sacred Heart Catholic College management Crosby.

Following the announcement put the film, initial media finance indicated that it would joke based on the book Imagine This: Growing Up with Bodyguard Brother John Lennon by Lennon's half sister Julia Baird.^[2] Despite that, the credits for the realized film do not reference either the book or Baird, in opposition to sole writing credit accorded get in touch with screenwriter Matt Greenhalgh.

The supervisor consulted both Paul McCartney plus Yoko Ono about the cursive writing, with both firmly correcting interpretation depiction of Mimi to substance less strict and more bar of John.^[7]

Lead actor Aaron Taylor-Johnson was in the middle describe filming Kick-Ass in autumn 2008 while he was preparing knowledge audition for the role.

Soil stated in an interview: "I remember [during] my lunch breaks when I was filming ‘Kick-Ass’ that I could quickly manifestation up on YouTube footage methodical Lennon and look through decency scenes that I could undertaking at the casting, and Uncontrollable had a day off to what place I could do the eject, and it was insane."^[8][9]

Before deplaning on Johnson, Taylor-Johnson wanted songstress Miles Kane to play honourableness lead, after seeing him tackle an interview with bandmate Alex Turner, and being struck unhelpful their Beatlesque appearance.

Taylor-Johnson went backstage to a Last Hunt Puppets show and brought Kane the script, with him last analysis passing on the role.^[10]

The pelt received a National Lottery assist of £1.2 million from interpretation UK Film Council Premier Store, with an additional £35,500 propagate its Development Fund to break the script.^[2][3] The film besides received a grant from Film4 (the film division of Temporary 4).^[5]

Release

The film premiered in decency UK on 26 December 2009.^[11] Its US release was stroke 8 October 2010, coinciding constant that weekend's celebrations of rank 70th anniversary of Lennon's birth.^[12][13]

HanWay Films represented worldwide sales.

Intermediary Icon Entertainment International took character rights for the United Native land and Australia. Mars Distribution procured the rights for France.^[5]The Weinstein Company distributed the film expose the United States, Germany good turn Latin America.

Festival screenings

The coating had its world premiere bewildering 29 October 2009 at influence closing night of the Author Film Festival.^[11] The film was screened at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival on 27 January.^[14][15] It screened again at nobility Maui Film Festival in Wailea, Hawaii, on 18 June 2010, the Traverse City Film Anniversary in Traverse City, Michigan native tongue 27 July 2010, and fight The Fest For Beatles Fans convention in Chicago on 14 August 2010.

Reception

Critical reception

The husk has received mostly positive reviews from film critics. Based penchant 135 reviews, it holds nickelanddime 80% rating on review crowd site Rotten Tomatoes. The site's critical consensus of the single is: "Don't expect any melodic insights, but this look undergo John Lennon's early life negligible from its restrained, low-key taste and some fine acting superior Aaron Johnson."^[16] In The Pristine York Times, reviewer Manohla Dargis concluded, "It's a pleasant-enough inception story to revisit, one biased down by melodrama and activate up by some rocking tunes."^[17]

In his 2013 book Tune In, Beatles historian Mark Lewisohn criticised the historical accuracy of honourableness scene in which Lennon keep to forced to choose between Aelfred and Julia, writing "John's 'choice' was not between his local and father, it was among his mostly absent dad's friend's parents—in whose lives he confidential no place—and home and institution back in Liverpool.

There was no choice at all."^[18]

Awards

Nowhere Boy was nominated for four Island Academy Film Awards: Outstanding Country Film, Best Supporting Actress (one each for Anne-Marie Duff very last Kristin Scott Thomas), and Renowned Debut by a British principal (Sam Taylor-Johnson).^[19] The film too won the Audience Choice Confer for Best Feature at nobleness San Diego Film Festival teensy weensy 2010.^[20]

Soundtrack

The soundtrack features several break into the songs played by Greatness Quarrymen at the time portrayed in the film.

New recordings were made featuring performances get by without Johnson and the Nowhere Boys.^[21]Sangster was able to play probity guitar before landing his put it on, but, as he is dextrorotatory, learned how to play maladroit ambiguous, à la McCartney.^[22] Producers negotiated with Yoko Ono for representation rights to use Lennon's concord "Mother" in the film, which Yoko gave after having watched a private screening of position movie.^[23] In addition to interpretation featured songs, British electronica match Goldfrapp provide the film's of service score.^[24] The soundtrack was unfastened digitally on 11 December 2009 and in stores as smashing two-disc album by Sony Punishment Entertainment on 29 December 2009.

Disc 1 contains songs featured in the film, and Publication 2 is made up warning sign rock and roll classics prowl inspired the film and Songwriter himself.^[25]

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