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Oct 12, 2018 · Steve Carell and Timothee Chalamet offer deeply felt work in bringing the story of father and son David and Nic Sheff to life. “Beautiful Boy” is based on both of their memoirs: David’s Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction and Nic’s Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines.
Jan 29, 2019 Full Review Ryan Gilbey New Statesman Beautiful Boy has a remorseless emotional integrity... It is frustrating, repetitive and inconclusive, and all the more admirable for it.
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- Felix Van Groeningen
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- Steve Carell
Sep 8, 2018 · Sep 7, 2018 8:48pm PT. Film Review: ‘Beautiful Boy’. Timothée Chalamet, as a young crystal-meth addict, and Steve Carell, as the desperate father who's out to save him, hit a true and...
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- Owen Gleiberman
Oct 11, 2018 · R. 2 hours. By A.O. Scott. Oct. 11, 2018. The question that tears at David Sheff, a magazine writer living in Marin County, outside San Francisco, is “Why?” Why did his oldest son, Nic, a charming...
- Felix Van Groeningen
- A.O. Scott
- 120 min
- A well-acted but heavy-handed cautionary tale.
- Verdict
By William Bibbiani
Updated: Nov 9, 2018 10:34 pm
Posted: Nov 9, 2018 10:20 pm
It’s hard to make a good film about drug addiction, because it’s hard to portray drug addiction honestly without turning your movie into a finger-wagging cautionary tale. Even the best films to tackle the subject sometimes carry a streak of the old Reefer Madness scare tactics, and Felix Van Groeningen’s Beautiful Boy, even though it features some truly incredible performances, is no exception.
Beautiful Boy tells the story of David Sheff (Steve Carell) and his teenage son Nic (Timotheé Chalamet), who becomes addicted to a series of dangerous drugs, including crystal meth and heroin. The way David saw it, their their lives were relatively perfect: they’re affluent, they have a loving household, and yet Nic’s seemingly conventional teen ennui led to one experimentation after another, and now he’s disappearing for days on end, and he’s an emotional train wreck whenever he does come home.
David and Nic Sheff are real people, who wrote about their experiences living through and coping with drug addiction in their memoirs. Felix Van Groeningen’s film is almost exclusively interested in their mutating relationship, from wholesome childhood playtimes to angry disbelief at each other’s selfishness, to the loneliness of their respective plights. Nic feels as though his father could never understand him, and we watch as David desperately tries to learn more about his son’s experiences, to the point of experimenting with narcotics himself.
Beautiful Boy may be a simplistic cautionary tale about drug addiction, made for such a demographic that’s so wealthy they may as well be alien. But that same, straightforward framework gives the film’s remarkable cast the room they need to develop and deliver uncanny performances, rich in detail and emotional complexity. It may not be a great movi...
- William Bibbiani
Sep 7, 2018 · Home. Movies. Movie Reviews. ‘Beautiful Boy’: Film Review | TIFF 2018. Steve Carell and Timothee Chalamet star as a father and his meth-addicted son in 'Beautiful Boy,' a true-life...
Oct 25, 2018 · With Steve Carell, Maura Tierney, Jack Dylan Grazer, Oakley Bull. 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.
