Beautiful Boy

Beautiful Boy

  • Director: Felix van Groeningen
  • Writer: Luke Davies,Felix van Groeningen,David Sheff
  • Countries of origin: United States
  • Language: English
  • Release date: October 25, 2018
  • Sound mix: Dolby Digital
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: Siempre serás mi hijo
  • "Beautiful Boy" is a feature film directed by Felix Van Groeningen and starring Steven John Carell and Timothée Chalamet  . It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 7, 2018 .
    The film is adapted from the memoir "Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey of a Drug Addicted Child" published by David Schiff. It tells the story of the son Nick in David's eyes from falling into the temptation of drugs to successfully rehabilitating drugs, to relapse of drug addiction, and finally recovering again. Story   .

    Details

    • Release date October 25, 2018
    • Filming locations San Francisco, California, USA
    • Production companies Amazon Studios, Big Indie Pictures, Plan B Entertainment

    Box office

    Budget

    $25,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $7,649,973

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $218,888

    Gross worldwide

    $16,636,604

    Movie reviews

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    • By Gerardo 2022-04-20 09:02:00

      sweet tea without peaches is not a good movie

      "Pretty Boy" is really ugly. Uneasy until now.

      The trailer cut a few dialogues between father and son conflict, and I thought it would be this year's "Miss Bird".

      The poster is made into "opening an old yellowed photo". The sans-serif Beautiful Boy is so innocent and cute, and it suddenly brings people into the troubled melancholy like "the bright moon at that time" and "those flowers".

      The soundtrack includes a post-rock blues new soul, David Bowie and Nirvana's hits, and...

    • By Gina 2022-04-19 09:02:23

      Pretty Boy: A War on Love and Drugs

      I was surprised after watching Pretty Boy: Contrary to the warm father-son relationship presented in the trailer, this film is actually a very depressing and depressing story; although the title is "Pretty Boy", the real protagonist of the film is actually his father. Through a war of love and drugs, the film deeply explores the enormous harm that drugs can cause to a family, which is both heartbreaking, cautionary and educational.

      Although the performances of father and son in the...

    • By Angie 2022-04-19 09:02:23

      Plain but true.

      "Beautiful boy" is a slow, slow-paced movie, and the most bland movie about drug use I've ever seen, but it's not derogatory.

      The film does not use too much pen and ink to describe the appearance of Nick, played by Tiancha, when he is addicted to drugs, but more about his repeated relapse during the process of detoxification, and the gradual disappearance of family hopes and even despair.

      Therefore, the "emotion" of the film is not very intense, and the intention is not very...

    • By Benjamin 2022-04-19 09:02:23

      Another movie to watch for tea

      Saying that it is to show the repeated process of drug use or the chaotic state of drug use cannot hide the failure of editing. Because this is a movie that allows the audience to enter from a third perspective, for audiences who have not read the book, such editing has no narrative ability, especially in the first half of the film, there is almost no complete plot lasting more than 5 minutes, so that the uninformed audience It can neither understand the plot nor bring into the emotion. And...

    • By Leo 2022-04-19 09:02:23

      pretty boy

      Yesterday, a friend watched Raw Meat first. He said that he felt a little disappointed. He relapsed into drug addiction, and the editing was too chaotic. His rating was only 6.5. I was a little flustered, would my expectations be too high? Fortunately, I read it myself today, and I think it's okay. The film is relatively bland at the beginning. Although it cuts into the theme quickly, nic is soon found to be drugged and sent to a drug rehab center, but it seems too sudden, many things are...

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    • By Aaliyah 2023-02-16 21:56:23

      When I saw the male protagonist mentioning his first drug use in the drug rehabilitation sharing meeting, "I have never felt so complete", I began to cry endlessly, thinking about Zhang Xuan's sentence "All I got is Luckily, all I lost was my life." He may have been troubled by this kind of loss for many years, and when he felt whole for the first time, it was also the time when he forever lost the opportunity to bridge the hole in his heart because of love , He can't be at ease and decay in...

    • By Charlotte 2022-04-24 07:01:15

      The soundtrack of the symphony opera makes the characters' emotions wider and more...

    • By Bernhard 2022-04-24 07:01:15

      After watching more than half of it, I thought it was a MV-style promo for gambling abstinence with beautiful pictures. Until I read it and listened to the last sentence of the long poem at the end, there is no absolute happy ending, only real pain and struggle, and the real emotion that grows in it. It is the most ordinary...

    • By Lou 2022-04-24 07:01:15

      One more star for...

    • By Dante 2022-04-24 07:01:15

      I didn't tell the story well, the interludes were messy, there is more content in the book that can be expressed, for my little...

    Movie plot

    Nick is a beautiful boy, a smart, attractive, and considerate teenager. He has excellent grades and all six universities he has applied for have thrown an olive branch to him. But he went in the wrong direction. Father David and the doctor discussed the effects of methamphetamine on the human body. When the doctor asked him if he was studying the literature, David replied that his son was a drug addict. Nick switched from marijuana to...
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    Evaluation action

    The film is an excellent film, but in less than two hours, it has been ruthlessly frustrating the audience. It rarely gives people time to breathe, and it can't even follow the more tragic plot. Relax a little before you arrive. (Timeline Review)
    This film adapted from the memoirs of David Schiff is a work that can firmly grasp the audience and then stimulate the audience's heart. (Comment on "Variety")
    "Beautiful Boy" puts the...
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    Movie quotes

    • Nic Sheff: One day, I tried methamphetamine... Yeah. That felt good... and I thought, "This is what's been missing." I felt complete. Today's a good day. Yeah, I've been chasing that high ever since. No matter... how much meth... or whatever else I can find to shoot up into my body... I do, it's never enough. And I went to a couple of rehabs, I detoxed, they would talk about disease, sure, but... it never clicked. Until one day I woke up in a hospital and someone asked me, "What's your problem?" And I said, "I'm an alcoholic and an addict." And he said..."No, that's how you've been treating your problem."I know now I need to find a way to fill this big black hole in me. Anyway, so I'm fourteen months clean. I have a job at a rehab. It's fulfilling to help other people get sober. I have a sponsor, Spencer. He shows me how great my life can be sober. And, um, I still have family. My mom's been amazing. My dad's been amazing, too. I want them to be proud of me.

    • David Sheff: Jasper's savings disappeared.

      Nic Sheff: Yeah? That's weird.

      David Sheff: Did you take his eight dollars?

      Nic Sheff: What?

      David Sheff: You heard me.

      Nic Sheff: Why would I?

      David Sheff: It disappeared, and somebody has to have done it.

      Nic Sheff: Right, so it's me. This is fucking ridiculous.

      David Sheff: Are you using again?

      David Sheff: Are you high right now?

      Nic Sheff: What the f...? No. Fuck you.

      David Sheff: *Fuck you*? Don't talk to me that way. Are you high right now?

      Nic Sheff: No.

      David Sheff: You're not using right now? Are you using?

      Nic Sheff: No, Dad, I'm not fucking high right now!

      David Sheff: Okay.

    • David Sheff: [Nic sees his father's work on the desk] He will sometimes send you funny emails. He prefers spaghetti over penne. Have you seen my son? Have you seen my beautiful boy? Tell him I miss him.