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About. Beautiful Boy. DRAMA. Based on the best-selling pair of memoirs from father and son David and Nic Sheff, Beautiful Boy chronicles the heartbreaking and inspiring experience of survival, relapse, and recovery in a family coping with addiction over many years. 17+. COMMON SENSE. Lots of anguish in heavy, repetitive drug-addiction drama. 68%.
Oct 12, 2018 · The biggest tragedy of Beautiful Boy is that it will probably become painfully relevant to the lives of more and more people as the opioid crisis continues to spin out of control with no end in ...
Oct 11, 2018 · But “Beautiful Boy,” rather than plumbing the hard emotional depths of its subject, skates on a surface of sentiment and gauzy visual beauty. There is a lot of good music — John Lennon ...
- 120 min
- A.O. Scott
Oct 11, 2018 · Steve Carell, proving again he’s as skilled at drama as he is in comedy, brings a fiercely moving core to the role of David Sheff, a journalist trying to cope with the meth addiction of his ...
- 2 min
- Peter Travers
Jul 9, 2013 · Close your eyesHave no fearThe monster's goneHe's on the run and your daddy's here [Chorus:]Beautiful, beautiful, beautifulBeautiful boyBeautiful, beautiful,...
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- Roy
Oct 3, 2018 · In one of Beautiful Boy’s most affecting scenes, David goes to see an addiction specialist (Timothy Hutton) to ask him for advice. As the doctor lays out the facts about how drugs affect the ...
Sep 19, 2018 · Yes. In the movie, Nic's second wife, Karen (portrayed by Maura Tierney), and their two small children, Jasper and Daisy, are all based on real people. Like in the film, they too suffered as David became obsessed with saving Nic. Jasper and Daisy idolized their older brother, who was their friend and playmate.
