
Growing up has nothing to do with age.
Plot outline
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Cast
- Hugh Grant
- Nicholas Hoult
- Sharon Small
- Madison Cook
- Jordan Cook
- Nicholas Hutchison
- Ryan Speechley
- Joseph Speechley
- Toni Collette
- Natalia Tena
- Laura Kennington
- Tanika Swaby
- Peter McNicholl
- Chris Webster
- Ben Ridgeway
- Jack Warren
- Russell Barr
- Isabel Brook
- Orlando Thor Newman
- Paulette P. Williams
- Fritha Goodey
- Susannah Doyle
- Delma Walsh
- Jonathan Franklin
- John Kamal
- Tessa Vale
- Lorna Dallison
- Bethany Muir
- Bruce Lawrence
- Joyce Henderson
- Jenny Galloway
- Janine Duvitski
- Sue Hyams
- Maggie Kahal
- Lynn Askew
- Beverly Milward
- Danielle Harvey
- Anna Maria Credenzone Philip
- Sarah King
- Susan Ghamsary
- Edna Johnson
- Victoria Smurfit
- Frog Stone
- Buddy Hunter
- Kristine Perrin
- Nathan Perrin-Hunter
- Rachael Perrin-Hunter
- Amy Craven
- Rebecca Craven
- Sidney Livingstone
- Cathy Murphy
- Joanne Petitt
- Jason Salkey
- Annabelle Apsion
- Matt Wilkinson
- Peter Roy
- Matthew James Thomas
- Aaron Keeling
- Scott Charles
- Claire Harman
- Sian Martin
- Mark Drewry
- Denise Stephenson
- Rosalind Knight
- Rachel Weisz
- Murray Lachlan Young
- Augustus Prew
- Alex Kew
- Mark Heap
- Sunanda Biswas
- James Marshall-Gunn
- Jamie Mayer
- Korede Obashju
- Roger Brierley
- Stefan Pejic
- Henry Allan
- Macéo Bhardwaj
- Gillian Evans
- Tim Rice
- Chris Tarrant
- Carol Vorderman
- Richard Whiteley
- Stuart Wood
Plots
A cynical, immature young man is taught how to act like a grown-up by a little boy.
Twelve year old Marcus Brewer lives with his chronically depressed single mother, Fiona Brewer. Both Fiona and Marcus beat to their own respective drummers. Marcus will do whatever he can to make his depressed mother happy, even if it causes himself grief. As such, he realizes that he is perceived as different than most kids, as even the self-professed weird kids don't want to hang out with him as he is the target of bullying. Part of the taunts against him are the fact that he sings and speaks to himself without even realizing that he is doing it. Meanwhile, thirty-eight year old Will Freeman is a slacker who has lived comfortably off the royalties of a song written by his deceased father, and as such has never had to work a day in his life. He is a solitary man who places himself as the first and only priority in life. He comes across the idea that dating single moms meets his selfish carnal needs. It is in this capacity that Will meets Marcus, as one of Will's single mother conquests, Suzie, is friends with the Brewers. Trying to escape his life but wanting Will to date Fiona, Marcus infiltrates Will's life, much to Will's chagrin. Will slowly begins to realize that Marcus is more than just a nuisance, but rather someone who needs some guidance navigating through the trials of adolescence and the trials of dealing with a suicidal mother, and perhaps he can be a small part of providing that direction. Conversely, Marcus may be able to show Will the path to becoming a real adult.
Will Freeman is a hip Londoner who one day realizes that his friends are all involved with the responsibilities of married life and that leaves him alone in the cold. Passing himself off as a single father, he starts to meet a string of single mums, confident in his ability to leave them behind when they start to ask for a commitment. But Will's hope of a continued bachelorhood is interrupted when he meets 12-year old Marcus, in many ways his complete opposite.
A comedy-drama: Will, a rich, child-free and irresponsible Londoner in his thirties who, in search of available women, invents an imaginary son and starts attending single parent meetings. As a result of one of his liaisons, he meets Marcus, an odd 12-year-old boy with problems at school. Gradually, Will and Marcus become friends, and as Will teaches Marcus how to be a cool kid, Marcus helps Will to finally grow up.