A 10-year-old boy spends a summer in the country with a childless couple and a precocious girl.
Acting
Wood and Birch's chaotic-kid chemistry outshines the adult stars.
Writing
Donoghue's script trusts kids to carry real dramatic weight.
Director
Mary Agnes Donoghue
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Donoghue wrote this as her directorial debut after penning 'Beaches,' and shot it in rural Ontario standing in for Maine.
This bombed against 'Thelma & Louise' and 'Terminator 2' in summer '91, effectively killing the 'sad adults plus precocious kids' drama until 'About a Boy' resurrected it.
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