Nowhere Boy (2009)

[Frayed Knot]

A Liverpool teen named John tries to define who he is while navigating the gulf between the emotionally distant and strict aunt who raised him and his loving but flighty mother who couldn't.
And out of that he forms this band ...









Sidenotes:

- Most of you are probably up on at least the basics of this tale, although some of the (apparently accurate) details of the back story were new to me. The movie is based at least partly on a book by one of John's half-sisters, one of three daughters his mother had via two relationships during separations from, and following the split with, John's father.

- The now twenty year-old lead actor took up a relationship with the film's director and the two are now engaged and parents of a newborn.
She is a divorced 44 y/o mother of two.