2009 · drama · biography · music
Nowhere Boy
Directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson1h 38m2009
A rebellious teenager, future Beatle John Lennon lives with his Aunt Mimi in working-class mid-1950s Liverpool, England. Mimi's husband suddenly dies, and John spies his mother Julia at the funeral. Despite Mimi's misgivings, John intends to have a real relationship with his mother. Julia introduces him to popular music and the banjo and, though a family conflict looms, young John is inspired to form his own band.
Our read: Nowhere Boy (2009) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · biography · music entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / biography, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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