Beautiful Boy
Overview
After he and his first wife separate, journalist David Sheff struggles to help their teenage son, who goes from experimenting with drugs to becoming devastatingly addicted to methamphetamine.
Reviews (3)
cityguide (Not rated)
Inspired by a father and son’s dual memoirs (Beatiful Boy and Tweak, respectively), Felix Van Groeningen’s heartfelt adaptation portrays the relationship between David (Steve Carell) and Nic Sheff (Timothée Chalamet), as both struggle through the latter’s drug addiction.
There are about a billion...
Stephen Campbell (Rated: 6)
Earnest and heartfelt, but narratively awkward, and emotionally unengaging
They say suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. The problem with being human isn't really so temporary.
- Nic Sheff; Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines (2008)
_Anyone who has lived t...
Kali (Rated: 10)
“Do you know how much I love you? If you could take all the words in the language, it still wouldn't describe how much I love you. And if you could gather all those words together, it still wouldn't describe what I feel for you. What I feel for you is everything. I love you more than everything.” ...
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