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  • Aaron Johnson and his Nowhere Boy director wed - 22 June 2012
    -Kick-Ass star Aaron Johnson has wed his filmmaker fiancee Sam Taylor-Wood.-The couple exchanged vows on Thursday (21Jun12) in Somerset after three years of dating, according to the Associated Press.- The 22-year-old actor wore a Tom Ford suit, while his bride, who is


  • Johnson's dancing inspired by film classics - 11 March 2011
    -Aaron Johnson took inspiration from John Travolta and Gene Kelly for his carefree dance moves in the latest R.E.M. music video.- -The Kick-Ass star can be seen flipping down an East London street and jumping off a post in the promo for the R.E.M. track Uberlin, which


  • Johnson vows to be choosier with roles - 6 September 2010
    -Actor Aaron Johnson has vowed to be selective with movie roles in the future - so he can spend more time with his family.- -The Nowhere Boy star is not impressed with the majority of modern films and wants to scale back on the number of parts he accepts so he can conc

Aaron Johnson - what members say


  • Nowhere Boy
  • Nowhere Boy review by Sabathius from Rye
    Rated - 3.0 stars From Out Of Nowhere 5 February 2010
    ...wing/tinkering with strings/keys/valves. Taylor-Wood present us with Lennon (Aaron Johnson) before he was famous, before he was good, even. And by doing so she is able to...   Read customer review
  • Kick-Ass
  • Kick-Ass review by from Nottingham, England
    Rated - 4.0 stars Superhero flick definitely kicks ass 9 April 2010
    ...finding time to pack in some fast-paced ultra-violent action for good measure. Aaron Johnson is the highschool nerd who wonders why no one has ever tried to become a Batman...   Read customer review

Aaron Johnson - filmography


  • Savages on DVD (2012)
    Starring: Uma Thurman,  John Travolta,  Taylor Kitsch
    Director: Oliver Stone
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Three-time Oscar-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone brings to life this ferocious, sexy epic. In a glittering California beach town, two best friends' innovative marijuana business has come to the attention of the ruthless Mexican Baja Cartel. As a seemingly unwinnable war unfolds around them, they're ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 979 members
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  • Anna Karenina on DVD (2012)
    Starring: Kelly MacDonald,  Emily Watson,  Keira Knightley
    Director: Joe Wright
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Tom Stoppard pens this Academy Award-nominated adaptation of Tolstoy's classic story of doomed love, directed by Joe Wright and boasting a star-studded British cast headed by Kiera Knightley and Jude Law. Trapped in a loveless marriage and the ongoing fallout of a family crisis, Anna (Knightley) ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 1,421 member
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  • Anna Karenina - Blu-ray (2012)
    Starring: Kelly MacDonald,  Emily Watson,  Keira Knightley
    Director: Joe Wright
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Tom Stoppard pens this Academy Award-nominated adaptation of Tolstoy's classic story of doomed love, directed by Joe Wright and boasting a star-studded British cast headed by Kiera Knightley and Jude Law. Trapped in a loveless marriage and the ongoing fallout of a family crisis, Anna (Knightley) ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 690 members
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  • Savages - Blu-ray (2012)
    Starring: Uma Thurman,  John Travolta,  Taylor Kitsch
    Director: Oliver Stone
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Three-time Oscar-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone brings to life this ferocious, sexy epic. In a glittering California beach town, two best friends' innovative marijuana business has come to the attention of the ruthless Mexican Baja Cartel. As a seemingly unwinnable war unfolds around them, they're ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 701 members
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  • Albert Nobbs on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Glenn Close,  Mia Wasikowska,  Jonathan Rhys Meyers
    Director: Rodrigo Garcia
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    A witty Irish-set period drama about the lives of staff at Dublin’s most luxurious hotel: the illegitimate child of a maid, a beautiful couple’s impossible love, and Albert...a woman who pretends to be a man to survive. 19th Century Ireland: for a woman to be independent and single, she must ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 2,783 members
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  • Chatroom - Blu-ray (2010)
    Starring: Ophelia Lovibond,  Megan Dodds,  Imogen Poots
    Director: Hideo Nakata
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Hideo Nakata's big-screen adaptation of Enda Walsh's stage play thriller. Four teenagers - Jim (Matthew Beard), Eva (Imogen Poots), Emily (Hannah Murray) and Mo (Daniel Kaluuya) - meet online in a cyber chatroom dominated by the presence of the charismatic William (Aaron Johnson). As in the play, ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 43% from 527 members
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  • Nowhere Boy on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Kristin Scott Thomas,  Aaron Johnson,  Anne-Marie Duff
    Director: Sam Taylor Wood
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Liverpool, 1955. When teenage rebel John Lennon (Johnson) learns that his aunt Julia (Duff) is actually his biological mother, he finds his loyalties divided. He finds an escape from domestic pressures in his growing passion for skiffle music.
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 18,117 members
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  • Chatroom on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Aaron Johnson,  Imogen Poots,  Matthew Beard
    Director: Hideo Nakata
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    The story follows five teenagers who meet together on the Internet and encourage each other there to remove their destructive behaviour. The situation gets completely out of control, as one of the boys take the opportunity to wipe his past. Directed by Hideo Nakata, the man behind the Japanese ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 44% from 1,184 member
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  • Kick-Ass on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Clark Duke,  Lyndsy Fonseca,  Mark Strong
    Director: Matthew Vaughn
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Action comedy based on the Marvel comic strip. Aaron Johnson stars as run-of-the-mill high school student Dave Lizewski, who, disillusioned with his humdrum existence, is inspired by the heroes of the comic books he loves to become a real-life superhero called 'Kick-Ass'. His first attempts to ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 79% from 16,507 members
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  • Kick-Ass - Blu-ray (2010)
    Starring: Clark Duke,  Lyndsy Fonseca,  Mark Strong
    Director: Matthew Vaughn
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Action comedy based on the Marvel comic strip. Aaron Johnson stars as run-of-the-mill high school student Dave Lizewski, who, disillusioned with his humdrum existence, is inspired by the heroes of the comic books he loves to become a real-life superhero called 'Kick-Ass'. His first attempts to ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 78% from 2,013 members
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  • Dummy on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Thomas Grant,  Aaron Johnson,  Emma Catherwood
    Director: Matthew Thompson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Dummy is a coming of age drama about two young brothers whose lives are thrown into turmoil when their mother dies suddenly, leaving them to fend for themselves. While Danny loses himself in music, sex and drugs, his younger brother Jack takes action – transforming, with the help of some make-up ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 130 members
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  • The Greatest on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Zoe Kravitz,  Carey Mulligan,  Johnny Simmons
    Director: Shana Feste
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Emotional drama starring Pierce Brosnan, Susan Sarandon and Carey Mulligan. When their eldest son Bennett (Aaron Johnson) is killed in a car accident, affluent middle-aged couple Allen and Grace Brewer (Brosnan and Sarandon) struggle to come to terms with his sudden death. While Grace becomes ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 4,465 members
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  • The Thief Lord on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Jasper Harris,  Aaron Johnson
    Director: Richard Claus
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Adventure based on the novel by Cornelia Funke. Six-year-old Bo (Jasper Harris) and fifteen-year-old Prosper (Aaron Johnson) are two recently orphaned brothers who escape their impending separation by running off to Venice. There they have fantastical adventures with the mysterious masked figure ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 1,708 member
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  • The Illusionist on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Edward Norton,  Jessica Biel,  Paul Giamatti
    Director: Neil Burger
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Director Neil Burger's screen adaptation of Steven Millhauser's short story 'Eisenheim the Illusionist'. Eisenheim (Edward Norton) is a magician in early 1900's Vienna, who falls in love with a woman well above his social standing. When she becomes engaged to a Crown Prince, Eisenheim uses his ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 81,011 members
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  • The Christmas Twins on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Derek de Lint,  Sean Bean,  Aaron Johnson
    Director: Esme Lammers
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Family drama starring Aaron Johnson as twin brothers Tom and Thomas. Despite living in the same city, and being aware of this fact, the brothers have never met. Their paths only cross finally when Tom is being chased by child smugglers. Mistaking him for his brother, the smugglers take Thomas and ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 81 members
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Aaron Johnson facts

5 most recent films

Savages - 3.0 stars
Anna Karenina - 3.0 stars
Anna Karenina - Blu-ray - 2.5 stars
Savages - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Albert Nobbs - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Kick-Ass - 4.0 stars
Kick-Ass - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Nowhere Boy - 3.5 stars
Nowhere Boy - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
The Illusionist - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Albert Nobbs - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Chatroom - Blu-ray - 2.0 stars
Chatroom - 2.0 stars
Anna Karenina - Blu-ray - 2.5 stars
Anna Karenina - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Mark Strong - 4 times - show films
Xander Berkeley - 4 times - show films
Christopher Mintz-Plasse - 4 times - show films
Eleanor Tomlinson - 4 times - show films
Michael Rispoli - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Matthew Vaughn - 4 times - show films
Sam Taylor Wood - 3 times - show films
Rodrigo Garcia - 3 times - show films
Gurinder Chadha - 3 times - show films
Shana Feste - 3 times - show films