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- This Boy’s Life – A True Story This Boy's Life is a nicely acted but excessively bland coming-of-age memoir about a young man's escape from domestic turmoil and abuse, with numerous potent scenes of conflict between the central teenager and his violent stepfather. By Variety Staff
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Apr 23, 1993 · Reviews. This Boy's Life. Roger Ebert April 23, 1993. Tweet. Leonardo Di Caprio and Robert De Niro. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. The great idea in the 1950s, if things weren't working out, was to go West. Maybe things would be better there.
This Boy's Life R 1993 1h 55m Drama LGBTQ+ List 76% Tomatometer 37 Reviews 80% Audience Score 10,000+ Ratings In the 1950s, Toby (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his mom, Caroline (Ellen Barkin),...
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- Michael Caton-Jones
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- Robert De Niro
This Boy's Life shows how a resilient teenager survives childhood trauma and adversity through independence, anger and creativity.. Full Review | May 21, 2003. Rotten Tomatoes, home of...
Apr 23, 1993 · This Boy's Life: Directed by Michael Caton-Jones. With Robert De Niro, Ellen Barkin, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Blechman. The story about the relationship between a rebellious 1950s teenager and his abusive stepfather, based on the memoirs of writer and literature Professor Tobias Wolff.
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- Biography, Drama
- Michael Caton-Jones
- 1993-04-23
This Boy's Life is an incredibly thorough movie; all the main groups of abuse are represented: emotional, physical, psychological and even financial abuses are present throughout. One of the best scenes is when Robert De Niro crams an old mustard jar into Leonardo DiCaprio's eye to teach him a lesson about wasting condiments.
The film received mostly positive reviews; review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a 76% 'Fresh' rating from 37 critics, with an average rating of 6.4/10. The site's consensus states: "A harrowing, moving drama about a young boy, his single mother, and his abusive stepfather, This Boy's Life benefits from its terrific cast, and ...
A movie review by James Berardinelli. This Boy's Life is based on the autobiographical book by Syracuse University professor Tobias Wolff. It tells of his early life in Salt Lake City, Seattle, and Concrete, Washington.
