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Nowhere Boy: Cast, Production & Release

Nowhere Boy is a 2009 British biographical drama film, directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson in her directorial debut. Written by Matt Greenhalgh, it is based on Julia Baird's biography of her half-brother, the musician John Lennon. Nowhere Boy is about the teenage years of Lennon (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), his relationships with his aunt Mimi Smith (Kristin Scott…

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Nowhere Boy topic overview

The analysis highlights Cast, Production and Release as prominent areas in the source structure around Nowhere Boy.

Related topics
76
Source areas
7
Connected nodes
83
Extracted relationships
44
Concept neighborhoods
29
Bridge connections
83

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Cast · 17 topics
Production · 15 topics
Overview · 14 topics
Release · 13 topics
Plot · 10 topics
Reception · 6 topics
Soundtrack · 1 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Based on
Imagine This: Growing Up with My Brother John Lennon by Julia Baird
Box office
$6.6 million
Budget
£1.2 million
Cinematography
Seamus McGarvey
Country
United Kingdom
Directed by
Sam Taylor-Johnson

Suggested research paths

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Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Plot

Cast

Production

Release

Reception

Soundtrack

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Nowhere Boy connects Entity context

The extracted context around Nowhere Boy shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Nowhere Boy → Anne-Marie Duff, Audience Choice Award, Best Feature, Best Supporting Actress, British, British Academy Film Awards, Kristin Scott Thomas, Outstanding British Film, Outstanding Debut, Sam Taylor-Johnson, San Diego Film Festival, The Another extracted example is Nowhere Boy → Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Anne-Marie Duff, David Morrissey, David Threlfall, Kristin Scott Thomas, Thomas Brodie-Sangster. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Nowhere Boy

Top relations

related to Awards · 12
Nowhere Boy → Anne-Marie Duff, Audience Choice Award, Best Feature, Best Supporting Actress, British, British Academy Film Awards, Kristin Scott Thomas, Outstanding British Film, Outstanding Debut, Sam Taylor-Johnson, San Diego Film Festival, The
Starring · 6
Nowhere Boy → Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Anne-Marie Duff, David Morrissey, David Threlfall, Kristin Scott Thomas, Thomas Brodie-Sangster
Production companies · 5
Nowhere Boy → Ecosse Films, Film4, HanWay Films, Icon Entertainment International, UK Film Council
related to External links · 4
Nowhere Boy → Box Office MojoNowhere Boy, IMDbNowhere Boy, Metacritic, Rotten TomatoesNowhere Boy
Produced by · 2
Nowhere Boy → Douglas Rae, Robert Bernstein
Release dates · 2
Nowhere Boy → 26 December 2009 (2009-12-26) (United Kingdom), 29 October 2009 (2009-10-29) (London)
Based on · 1
Nowhere Boy → Imagine This: Growing Up with My Brother John Lennon by Julia Baird
Box office · 1
Nowhere Boy → $6.6 million
Budget · 1
Nowhere Boy → £1.2 million
Cinematography · 1
Nowhere Boy → Seamus McGarvey

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

john film julia mimi lennon nowhere boy taylor-johnson 2009 festival received greenhalgh aaron british release paul mother band 2010 lennon's

Nowhere Boy relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 44 structured relationships around Nowhere Boy. Examples in this analysis include Nowhere Boy → Based on → Imagine This: Growing Up with My Brother John Lennon by Julia Baird and Nowhere Boy → Box office → $6.6 million. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Nowhere BoyBased onImagine This: Growing Up with My Brother John Lennon by Julia Baird1.00infobox
Nowhere BoyBox office$6.6 million1.00infobox
Nowhere BoyBudget£1.2 million1.00infobox
Nowhere BoyCinematographySeamus McGarvey1.00infobox
Nowhere BoyCountryUnited Kingdom1.00infobox
Nowhere BoyDirected bySam Taylor-Johnson1.00infobox
Nowhere BoyDistributed byIcon Film Distribution1.00infobox
Nowhere BoyEdited byLisa Gunning1.00infobox
Nowhere BoyLanguageEnglish1.00infobox
Nowhere BoyMusic byGoldfrapp1.00infobox
Nowhere BoyProduced byRobert Bernstein1.00infobox
Nowhere BoyProduced byDouglas Rae1.00infobox
Nowhere BoyProduction companiesIcon Entertainment International1.00infobox
Nowhere BoyProduction companiesFilm41.00infobox
Nowhere BoyProduction companiesUK Film Council1.00infobox
Nowhere BoyProduction companiesEcosse Films1.00infobox
Nowhere BoyProduction companiesHanWay Films1.00infobox
Nowhere BoyRelease dates29 October 2009 (2009-10-29) (London)1.00infobox
Nowhere BoyRelease dates26 December 2009 (2009-12-26) (United Kingdom)1.00infobox
Nowhere BoyRunning time97 minutes1.00infobox
Nowhere BoyScreenplay byMatt Greenhalgh1.00infobox
Nowhere BoyStarringAaron Taylor-Johnson1.00infobox
Nowhere BoyStarringAnne-Marie Duff1.00infobox
Nowhere BoyStarringKristin Scott Thomas1.00infobox
Nowhere BoyStarringDavid Threlfall1.00infobox
Nowhere BoyStarringThomas Brodie-Sangster1.00infobox
Nowhere BoyStarringDavid Morrissey1.00infobox
Nowhere Boyis a2009 British biographical drama film0.90text

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Nowhere Boy bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Nowhere, British and Box. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Nowhere Boy
    • Nowhere
    • British
    • Box
    • Office
    • Anne-marie
    • Duff
    • Kristin
    • Sam
    • Scott
    • Thomas
    • Taylor-johnson
    • Debut
  • nowhere boy
    • Nowhere
    • British
    • Box
    • Office
    • Anne-marie
    • Duff
    • Kristin
    • Sam
    • Scott
    • Thomas
    • Taylor-johnson
    • Debut
  • drama film
    • Festival
    • Lennon
    • Baird
    • Sam
    • Greenhalgh
    • Lennon's
    • Received
    • Nowhere
    • Taylor-johnson
    • Debut
    • Also
    • Anne-marie
  • sam taylor-johnson
    • Anne-marie
    • Duff
    • Kristin
    • Scott
    • Thomas
    • Taylor-johnson
    • Baird
    • Aaron
    • Greenhalgh
    • Years
    • Box
    • Lennon
  • matt greenhalgh
    • Matt
    • Baird
    • Anne-marie
    • Based
    • Duff
    • Kristin
    • Sam
    • Scott
    • Thomas
    • Aaron
    • Lennon
    • Taylor-johnson
  • julia baird
    • Greenhalgh
    • Lennon
    • John
    • Based
    • Duff
    • Kristin
    • Matt
    • Sam
    • Scott
    • Thomas
    • Lennon's
    • Aaron
  • john lennon
    • Aaron
    • Julia
    • Taylor-johnson
    • Anne-marie
    • Baird
    • Duff
    • Kristin
    • Scott
    • Thomas
    • Lennon's
    • Mother
    • Lennon
  • aaron taylor-johnson
    • Anne-marie
    • Duff
    • Kristin
    • Scott
    • Thomas
    • Taylor-johnson
    • Lennon
    • Years
    • Baird
    • Beatles
    • Sam
    • Greenhalgh

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Nowhere Boy, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Nowhere Boy with Cast. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Nowhere BoyCast · splits 66 ⟂ 18
Nowhere BoyProduction · splits 68 ⟂ 16
Nowhere BoyOverview · splits 69 ⟂ 15
Nowhere BoyRelease · splits 70 ⟂ 14
Nowhere BoyPlot · splits 73 ⟂ 11
Nowhere BoyReception · splits 77 ⟂ 7

Map overview Semantic statistics

Nowhere Boy

Nodes84
Edges83
Triples44
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.02381
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Nowhere Boy to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Cast, Production & Release, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Nowhere Boy · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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