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I watched "Beautiful Boy" on Amazon Prime yesterday. It was near the top of my must-see list last year before the reviews came out. The concept of weaving two related memoirs about a father and son's experience with the son's drug addiction into one movie was interesting.
YES! if youre a big Timmy fan from CMBYN, PLEASE WATCH IT, his acting in it is amazing as he takes on a real-life character (Nik) in his struggles of addiction within his family. If you thought Timmy was good in CNBYN, it will move you as Timmy "becomes" Nik.
Oct 11, 2018 · “Beautiful Boy” is not a bad movie. It was made with earnest care and honorable intentions, and concludes with a recitation of one of Charles Bukowski’s best poems.
- Felix Van Groeningen
- A.O. Scott
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Anyone else actually enjoy 'Beautiful Boy' and feel the pain of the character? Discussion. I read a lot of comments bashing about the pacing and flashback-real time editing. I found it quite great, it was as if he was remembering these times while living in the present.
- A House Divided
- Stylish, If Familiar
- Beautiful Boy: Conclusion
On the one hand is David, a freelance journalist who not only has Nic to worry about, he juggles the role of husband to Karen (Maura Tierney) and father to their two children. Carell’semoting is brilliant, marking a career high point with a muted display of love and agony fighting for dominance in a man struggling to save his son. A disproportionat...
The trouble with movies expressly about drug addiction is there is little room to say anything beyond aphorisms previous works have already touched upon. Beautiful Boy offers little in the way of fresh insight, but it provides a closer vantage point from which we can participate through the relationship of David and Nic. This is partly due to the c...
Beautiful Boy is at once a simple story of a dying boy and his father’s desperation, and a complex addressing of the difficulties in achieving sobriety. It means well, and it does well by its cinematic means as a tearjerking melodrama through its style – even if the style overburdens the narrative flow at times. If the occasionally heavy handed app...
Nov 20, 2022 · By Sylvia-Marah Boune Nov. 20, 2022 12:15 pm EST. Trigger warning: This article discusses themes of substance misuse and addiction. Director Felix Van Groeningen's drama "Beautiful Boy" is...
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Beautiful Boy is a true story told from two perspectives: a son battling drug addiction, Nic Sheff, played by Timothée Chalamet, and his father, the journalist David Sheff, played by Steve...
