Remember that kind of cutesy Hugh Grant movie About a Boy? I remember it mostly because I bailed out of our annual family reunion a few hours early to see it with my then-boyfriend. Toni Collette and the kid in it, Nicholas Hoult, made it worth seeing, of course, and Natalia Tena, now Tonks of Harry Potter fame, is always fun to watch, but they sort of mutilated some of the movie from the book (as many movies are wont to do, of course).
The part I really wanted to touch on was the music of the book. Instead of focusing on Kurt Cobain, his death, and the way it affected Tena’s character so dramatically in the book, the film instead chose to have the kids interested in crap—oops, I mean rap—music instead. (Not all rap music is crap; but the music in the film versus Cobain’s songs was like Barney versus Jimmy Page.)
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