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Taylor-Wood's Lennon biopic Nowhere Boy opens

Updated on 23 November 2009

By Channel 4 News

Sam Taylor-Wood's biopic on John Lennon, Nowhere Boy, opens in Liverpool - Yoko Ono likes it but not all of his family are convinced. Stephanie West reports.

Lennon (Credit: Getty)

John Lennon's complex early life gets the full celluloid exposure in Liverpool tonight at the premier of the film.

Directed by the artist Sam Taylor-Wood, it tells the story of his childhood and how he was brought up by his aunt while his real mother lived down the road.

The film has been greeted warmly by Yoko Ono but some of Lennon's own family are not so enthusiastic.

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