Average Rating: 5/10
Reviews Counted: 8
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 6
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Release Date: May 29, 1998 Wide
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A teenager tries to shield his family from his father's violence in this downbeat drama. Jimmy West (Ryan Phillippe) is a young man growing up within a horribly dysfunctional family in a small Texas town. His father Ray (John Savage) is a Vietnam veteran whose physical and emotional scars from the war have turned him into a psychotic; he terrorizes his two younger children, Mikey (Adam Burke) and Mark (Devon Michael), brutalizes his wife Kate (Nastassja Kinski), and sometimes forces Jimmy and
May 29, 1998 Wide
Jul 11, 2006
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I know what crap film Ryan did last summer!
Boston has written some excellent characters, and under Antonio Tibaldi's astute direction, the actors are uniformly superlative, right down to the walk-ons.
So muddled and frustrating in its storytelling that I felt like giving up on the film halfway through.
Whatever..............
July 17, 2009
Super Reviewer
"Little Boy Blue" is one of the most powerful and compelling movies I've watched in awhile. True family history slowly unfolds between a Vietnam vet (John Savage) and his wife and three sons. The movie starts out slow with what seems like a typical family that has some problems. However, as the movie goes on, Jimmy
September 8, 2009Super Reviewer
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