A fine film and amazingly faithful to the book

Rating: 8/10 (1 April 2000)

I picked up Hornby's book when it was first issued and enjoyed it immensely, so I was looking forward to seeing it on the screen. But I feared that the film treatment would butcher the book and that I'd be disappointed. Not so. I was very pleased. The directing and acting was spookily faithful to the book. This is a very human story of one man's confusion as he tries to define and then find and then hold onto true love. One of the lessons he learns is that self-acceptance has to come first. Go see it; you won't be disappointed unless perhaps you're a hung-up perfectionist.