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Imagine John Lennons childhood A spirited teenager, curious, sharp and funny, growing up in the shattered city of Liverpool. Two extraordinary sisters tussle for his love - Mimi, the formidable aunt who raised him from the age of 5 and Julia, the spirited mother who gave him up to Mimis care. Yearning for a normal family, John escapes into art and the new music flooding in from the US. His fledgling genius finds a kindred spirit in the young Paul McCartney. But just as Johns new life begins, the truth about his past leads to a tragedy he would never escape.

"Nowhere Boy" is an ironic title, though John got the sobriquet from one of his teachers in the prep school he attended in the mid-fifties. One has no idea where his aunt got the money to send him there since she appears to be without a vocation. Suspended by the headmaster for possessing a porn magazine, John shrugs off school altogether as he becomes interested in playing the guitar and forming his own group. Elvis was triumphant at the time. When shown at the cinema, the girls in the audience would go nuts, just as the bobby-soxers did here in the U.S. upon seeing Frank Sinatra.

Despite the movie's nature as a biopic of John Lennon restricted to a couple of years during the decade, one could attend a screening without knowing just who the guy was or wood become. Sam Taylor-Wood is determined to make this a British drama punctuating the chaotic home life that finds John being smooched regularly by his mother. One gets the impression at first that mother Julia is an older girlfriend of the lad, given her inappropriate cuddling of the boy who was "kidnapped" away from mom by his aunt because at the age of five he wanted to go with his dad to New Zealand, where he'd never again be seen in Liverpool.

John is like an angry young man that could have had a role as Mick Travis in Lindsay Anderson's 1968 film "If," but is saved from becoming a hoodlum by music. He forms a band with Paul McCartney (Thomas Brodie Sangster), fifteen years old at the time with an angelic face that belies his skill with the guitar and his maturity. With the two women in his life impressing John with their outlooks-one a bi-polar mother, the other a prim and proper aunt (with an exceptionally good job by Kristin Scott Thomas)-we see that "Nowhere Boy" is not so much a look at the early days of a rock-and-roll star but the struggle of a renegade toward maturity. The music that Lennon composed for his fledgling band is nothing to write home about, giving not a wisp of a hint of his later productivity. At least those songs were better than the most innocuous drivel of all time which was playing on the radio, "If I Knew You Were Coming I'd've Baked a Cake," sung by Eileen Barton in 1950.