About a Boy (2002)

Hugh Grant realises his is a lonely life and becomes friends with the boy. He also tries to stop the boy being crucified with embarrassment at the song contest by getting up on stage with him and playing guitar to Killing Me Softly. The mother lives. Hugh Grant gets together with the mother of the boy's classmate and tries to hook up the boy's mother with his former Greenpeace type co-worker.

Lois James