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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...
Timothee Chalamet is fantastic (and robbed of a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination). Steve Carell, Maura Tierney, and Amy Ryan are also very good. The two memoirs pair well together and have a cohesive tone. The soundtrack is terrific. The perspective of the son's experiences were fascinating and seemed realistic.
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 sur...
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- 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...
NEW. Teenager Nicolas Sheff seems to have it all -- good grades, editor of the school newspaper, actor, artist and athlete. When Nic's addiction to meth threatens to destroy him, his desperate ...
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In the movie, he seems upset, distracted, but still functioning and holding it together. It doesn’t really affect the audience as it should. Maura Tierney did really well.
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Jun 27, 2018 · CNN — It’s still too early to say whether “Beautiful Boy,” a film about the impact of methamphetamine addiction on one family, will be part of the Oscars conversation, but the movie’s first...
