I was thinking the same thing. That is why I wanted to watch it on a big screen. I just hope that she will be able to get better movie roles from the great press she is and is going to get from this movie. Not just playing a cute girlfriend or cute mother. So here I have a review of "Nowhere Boy" from the Huffington Post. There was a big premiere of the movie last Sunday at Lincoln Center, NY. I think you all will like this.                                                                                                                                                                                                                         As a teen, Harvey Weinstein worked at Apple Records with the responsibility to shepherd about a young band, The Beatles, he told the well-heeled guests at Lincoln Center's Allen Room Sunday night. Then he introduced a new movie The Weinstein Company will release in time for John Lennon's 70th birthday on October 8th: Nowhere Boy.

In a case of corporate synergy, the stunning evening hosted by Montblanc was the global launch of the Montblanc John Lennon donation pen, and connected with similar launches in Berlin, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Mexico City. "Tonight we will make the world feel as one," announced Montblanc CEO Lutz Bethge with Susan Sarandon by his side. He also affirmed a commitment by Montblanc to support education all over the world. Yoko Ono appeared on a large screen, live from Berlin's Peace Tower to emphasize the message. In an important gesture, she spoke about allowing the Nowhere Boy filmmakers the rights to use the song, "Mother." She mentioned yet another movie to open at the upcoming New York Film Festival limning his life in New York: Michael Epstein's LennonNYC.

The movie Nowhere Boy brought matters down to earth. Given that it is about an icon, large enough to be murdered by a madman and remembered in the way that everyone remembers those extraordinary moments -- where you were when you heard, etc. -- this movie is small in the best sense. It tells the story of John's youth, his highly confused parentage, dramatizing his brutish behavior and also revealing the sources of his most tender songs. A family story, Nowhere Boy features wonderful performances by the two women, his spirited birth mother Julia (a dynamic Anne-Marie Duff) and the aunt who raised him (the splendid Kristin Scott Thomas). This is the story of a young man whose life is a rage against adversity and sad childhood full of loss and identity issues. As the teen John Lennon, the actor Aaron Johnson sports a pompadour appropriate to a Liverpool lad seeking to become a rocker in the manner of Elvis, but in real life he wears Rimbaud-like waves. He and director Sam Taylor-Wood, a noted photographer who was wearing an Alexander McQueen cocktail dress at the posh opening, are recent parents. In between speaking to reporters and greeting Christian Siriano and Alan Cummings, they worried how their six-week old daughter fared in her hotel room. Already out in England, the movie has had only modest success, Johnson said, because it opened the same day as Sherlock Holmes and Avatar. Harvey Weinstein recounted an early Nowhere Boy review: Sir Paul McCartney said he loved the movie, finding fault only with the casting of Paul -- he was much more handsome.

http://www.huffingtonpost...-boy-groun_b_716326.html

This is from Hollywood News:Finally, although it doesn’t open stateside for a couple of weeks, Christina Aguilera stole the show at Sunday night’s New York Lincoln Center premiere of “Nowhere Boy,” the Weinstein Co. drama about the young John Lennon that has come and gone in England (it’s already on Blu Ray) and which I saw, and really liked on a British Airways jet going to London in May. Now finally Americans will get the chance to see this fine, atmospheric drama with a terrific lead performance from Aaron Johnson (“Kickass”) and a wonderful supporting one from the criminally underrated Kristin Scott Thomas. Aguilera , who has her own flick “Burlesque” opposite Cher opening for Thanksgiving, sang Lennon’s “Imagine” for the gathered guests in honor of what would have been his 70th birthday coming up on October 9th, the day after the film’s U.S. opening.
The bottom video has a review of the movie:
http://www.reelzchannel.c...-dramas-and-indie-movies

Having Harvey Weinstein is the best person to have behind your movie, especially a small movie like "Nowhere Boy".

Edited 1 time by Island29 Sep 17 10 8:26 PM.