Nowhere Boy
- Aaron Taylor -Johnson: John Lennon
- Thomas Sangster: Paul McCartney
- Kristin Scott Thomas: Mimi Smith
- Anne -Marie Duff: Julia Lennon
- David Morrissey: Bobby Dykins
- Ophelia Lovibond: Marie Kennedy
- Sam Bell: George Harrison
- Jack McElhone: Eric Griffiths
Nowhere Boy is a 2009 film produced biography tells the story of the early years of the later Beatles musician John Lennon. At the same time, the film also addresses the history of one of the most successful music groups. The screenplay is based on the autobiography Imagine This: Growing Up With My Brother John Lennon by Julia Baird, a half-sister of John Lennon.
Short story
The film shows John Lennon, growing up with his aunt Mimi in a suburb of Liverpool. You like his mother Julia are there that have an influence on him and further his career as a musician. Lennon founded with friends from school, the skiffle band The Quarrymen, come to which Paul McCartney and George Harrison. The film ends with Lennon said goodbye to his Aunt Mimi, since he will travel to Hamburg to play there with his new band.
Reviews
" After a somewhat arbitrary initial finds" Nowhere Boy " his lane, and go to a tragic finale of familial revelations, in which the three main characters make full use of their skills. Sam Taylor-Wood 's debut film is a neat, accurate Helping Musicians biography of the teenage days and artistic beginnings of John Lennon. "
" Nowhere Boy makes it to a somewhat lame start, in the many acts told too flat, clearly to pull out the center and its history with wit, a little pathos and lots of rock 'n ' roll to tell - Beatles songs, you may, however, in vain search, because there were not then. "
Background information
With the support of Lennon's widow Yoko Ono, the film was partially filmed on location in Liverpool, but also in Blackpool and London. He celebrated on 29 October 2009 at the London Film Festival world premiere. He was also shown on 13 November 2009 at the Turin Film Festival. In England, the film opened on December 26, 2009 in the cinemas. The film was released in Germany on December 8, 2010 in the cinemas.
Trivia
Aaron Johnson, the then 19 -year-old protagonist of the film, met the director Sam Taylor -Wood know and love on the set. Johnson and the 44 -year-old Taylor -Wood are now married and have two daughters.