Beautiful Boy (2018)

Name: Beautiful Boy
Director: Felix van Groeningen
Genre: Drama
Released: 2018-10-12
Duration: 1 h 59 min
Cast: Steve Carell, Timothée Chalamet, Maura Tierney, Amy Ryan

Drama

Director: Felix van Groeningen

Cast: Steve Carell, Timothée Chalamet, Maura Tierney, Amy Ryan

7.4

68%

Runtime119 min

Rating15

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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.

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Beautiful Boy, the 2018 drama directed by Felix van Groeningen, offers a powerful and heartbreaking portrayal of addiction, with standout performances from Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet that capture the devastating impact on a family struggling to help their son through his meth addiction.

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Beautiful Boy is a 2018 American biographical drama film directed by Felix van Groeningen from a screenplay by Luke Davies and Van Groeningen and based on the 2008 memoirs Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction by David Sheff and Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines by Nic Sheff. It stars Steve Carell, Timothée Chalamet, Maura Tierney, and Amy Ryan. In the film, the father-son relationship between David Sheff (Carell) and Nic Sheff (Chalamet) becomes increasingly strained by the latter's drug addiction.