Nowhere Boy
A chronicle of John Lennon's first years, focused mainly in his adolescence and his relationship with his stern aunt Mimi, who raised him, and his absentee mother Julia, who re-entered his life at a crucial moment in his young life.
1943, England, UK
January 26, 1988 in London
1968
16 May 1990, London, England, UK
24 May 1960, Redruth, Cornwall, England, UK
1986, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
8 October 1970, Southall, London, England, UK
1974, Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK
19 February 1979, Stockport, Cheshire, England, UK
27 December 1989, Edgware, London, England, UK
13 June 1990, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
12 October 1953, Burnage, Manchester, England, UK
April 04, 2011
The content is there but the form is a Xerox copy of every celebrity coming-of-age tale you've heard and seen before.
October 15, 2010
More love triangle than musical, the effective and often sweet Nowhere Boy offers a sense of the time and tension that produced John Lennon.
April 06, 2017
The acting all round is pretty good, but the story itself is given to a sense of drift, as if the film itself doesn't know any better than Lennon what it wants.
February 09, 2011
A passable drama, and might make a nice double feature with Backbeat.
January 31, 2013
Fascinating...fills in a lot of blank spaces in the Beatles history we already knew.
October 19, 2010
Taylor-Wood has specialized in video installations and off-kilter portraits, and it was tempting to hope that her take on Lennon would unsettle and provoke. Instead, she stays resolutely on-kilter, as if awed into numbness by her subject.
October 15, 2010
This portrait of a Beatle as a young man also gives filmmaker Sam Taylor-Wood, working on a thoughtful script by Matt Greenhalgh, creative room to manoeuvre, introducing us to John just as he and rock 'n' roll discover one another.
September 22, 2012
It might not have what Beatles fans are expecting from a film about the young John Lennon, but it remains an interesting portrait of the early days of the future legend and is worth seeking out.
October 15, 2010
Although he doesn't look much like Lennon, Johnson captures that essence perfectly; the future icon is here a confused, hurt boy.
January 27, 2011
Nowhere Boy succeeds because its creators never wallow in sanctimony, keep contrivances to a minimum and has a lead actor who evolves his character rather than imitates.
October 15, 2010
Nowhere Boy is a poignant reminder that before the world was at his command, John Lennon was a bit like you and me.
