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You can watch Nowhere Boy (2009) on Hoopla with a participating library card, rent on Apple TV+, or buy on Apple TV+.
A rebellious teenager, future Beatle John Lennon lives with his Aunt Mimi in working-class mid-1950s Liverpool, England. Mimi's husband suddenly dies, and John spies his mother Julia at the funeral. Despite Mimi's misgivings, John intends to have a real relationship with his mother. Julia introduces him to popular music and the banjo and, though a family conflict looms, young John is inspired to form his own band.
Can a teenager bridge the fractured gap between his rigid upbringing and the mother he barely knows? This portrait of a young John Lennon captures the restless friction of a boy caught between two worlds in post-war Liverpool.
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Sam Taylor-Johnson
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Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Anne-Marie Duff, Kristin Scott Thomas, David Threlfall, David Morrissey, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Josh Bolt, Ophelia Lovibond, Andrew Buchan, James Johnson
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Nowhere Boy
You can watch Nowhere Boy (2009) on Hoopla with a participating library card, rent on Apple TV+, or buy on Apple TV+.
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Director
Sam Taylor-Johnson
Cast
Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Anne-Marie Duff, Kristin Scott Thomas, David Threlfall, David Morrissey, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Josh Bolt, Ophelia Lovibond, Andrew Buchan, James Johnson
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