Nowhere Boy, which was written by Matt Greengalgh (Control) and directed by first-timer Sam Taylor-Wood, uses a variety of books, news sources and first-hand accounts (including the memoirs of ...

Not long ago, the title “Nowhere Boy” seemed to accurately capture where the film stood in the awards picture: nowhere. But after some key in-flight showings on British Airways, and given the ...

Sam and Aaron Taylor-Johnson celebrate their 13th anniversary on Saturday, June 21, 2025. See a photo of the happy couple ...

The formula for biopics is so rote by now, so predictably charted, that director Sam Taylor-Wood should be complimented simply for keeping her tale of John Lennon's coming of age so tightly ...

The scared, lonely teenager hides in a tiny basement room in a house on Avenue Albert Jonnart, and that’s how he meets Max, the 13-year-old boy who lives there. Max tells no one about Ahmed.

"Nowhere Boy" stars Aaron Johnson, Kristin Scott Thomas and Ann-Marie Duff — all outstanding — as, respectively, the adolescent John Lennon, the aunt who raised him and the erratic mother ...

Nowhere Boy found an emotional heart that rang true with that mother-son relationship, which is something traditional musical biopics often struggle with. Of course, there’s no telling what the ...

Nowhere Boy was a critical smash in its native UK and hits theaters stateside Friday, just in time for what would have been Lennon's 70th birthday this weekend.

Before Nowhere Boy, Taylor-Johnson had been at the height of his Kick Ass fame, a tongue-in-cheek superhero flick where he starred as a high-school-loser-turned-DIY-vigilante.

A respectable but surprisingly conventional feature-debut effort from Brit artist-turned-helmer Sam Taylor-Wood, “Nowhere Boy” offers a portrait of pop star John Lennon as an angry, ’50s-era ...

This week, Nowhere Boy is a worthy biopic of an ambitious young John Lennon, 30 Rock’s resident World Champion dominates the book biz, and a New York gallery takes a bite out of Billy Apple’s art.

"Nowhere Boy" is about John before he was fab -- back when he was just John Winston Lennon of Menlove Avenue, Liverpool. Back when he had something to say, and nobody to listen.