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To: redfish who wrote (95509)	2/3/2005 1:45:35 AM
From: Grainne	Respond to of 108807

I thought that Grant's character in About A Boy was the most complex version of that character he usually plays. I really enjoyed seeing it again. I remembered that I really liked it, but had forgotten one of the major themes of the movie, which is that everyone needs "backup" in their lives. The boy and his single mother who was depressed and tried to kill herself had no backup. Neither did Grant's character. I thought the large supportive crowd of people who had gathered together and shared each others' lives by the end of the movie was very positive. One or two autonomous people is not enough to nurture the very social animals that we are, even surly, shallow individualists like Grant's character. I don't know if you were hanging out here the last time we discussed Hugh Grant. What was funny is that Colin Firth came out and said in public that Grant's character in Bridget Jones' diary was the real Grant. Not a very friendly thing for a fellow actor to reveal, really, but funny nonetheless. I like Grant because he is extremely bright and well educated, and says very interesting things on late night talk shows. He is pretty open and self deprecating, not stuck on himself. The classic would have to be his appearance on Jay Leno right after the Hollywood prostitute bust, when Leno asked "what were you thinking?" Very juicy television.