Continuity mistake: When Will meets Rachel, right after Rachel says "Mine's Ali...Alistair", her arms keep changing positions. First she has got them on the table, then on her legs, and then on the next shot they're on the table again.
About a Boy (2002)
Ending / spoiler
Directed by: Paul Weitz, Chris Weitz
Starring: Toni Collette, Rachel Weisz, Hugh Grant, Nicholas Hoult, Sharon Small, Madison Cook
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.
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Answer: It's when Will is in HMV looking for a CD and it's on the screen in the background.
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