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 survival, relapse, and recovery in a family coping with addiction over many years.

MOVIE REVIEW

The Depressing Young White Male subgenre season kicks off with Beautiful Boy, the first of several planned releases (and potential award contenders) that focus on the crappy and depressing lives of… young white males. In Entry Number One, director Felix Van Groeningen fixates on the true story of David Sheff, who spent years trying to save his son Nic from an addiction to crystal meth.
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