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WOW,John Lennon or Beatles fans MUST SEE.Released in 2009 and running 98 minutes,if there are any flaws its that the Brits and us are separated by a common language.That said,its a engrossing film based on a biography written by Johns half sister
Julia Baird.There is crux of the matter.John led a very complicated life even as a teen,and thats what this films focus is on.The actors are Brits and so are unknown to me,but I believed them wholeheartedly. The music is NOT the story here as the film ends with John heading for Germany.No,the story is his troubled youth and how he met Paul and George.
I have to single out both Kristin Scott Thomas,as Mimi,the aunt who raised him and Anne-Marie Duff as his mom who abandoned and later reunited with him.Aaron Taylor-Johnson is also convincing as John.There always has to be a back story to every great artist and this is a complicated melodramatic one as engrossing as any I've ever seen.HIGHLY recommended.Trailer URL follows the picture and a IMDB summary below.
A chronicle of John Lennon's first years, focused mainly in his adolescence and his relationship with his stern aunt Mimi, who raised him, and his absentee mother Julia, who re-entered his life at a crucial moment in his young life.
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