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Nowhere Boy A Liverpool youth in the 1950s is torn between the dependability of his emotionally restrained Aunt Mimi and the drama of his psychologically unhinged mother Julia. His name is John Lennon. R

    by Carrie Rickey | Columnist, Inquirer
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Nowhere Boy

A Liverpool youth in the 1950s is torn between the dependability of his emotionally restrained Aunt Mimi and the drama of his psychologically unhinged mother Julia. His name is John Lennon.

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Hereafter Clint Eastwood's triptych about an American psychic, a French journalist who survives a near-death experience, and an English lad in mourning is a contemplative mood piece on death and dying that proves to be a life-affirming movie about love. PG-13

The Social Network Director David Fincher and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin collaborated on this Facebook origin story, a near-perfect whodunit starring Jesse Eisenberg as the almost affectless Mark Zuckerberg and Andrew Garfield as his friend and Facebook cofounder Eduardo Saverin. R