Beautiful Boy

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Cast & Crew

Steve Carell
David Sheff

Timothée Chalamet
Nic Sheff

Maura Tierney
Karen Barbour

Amy Ryan
Vicki

Timothy Hutton
Dr. Brown

Kaitlyn Dever
Lauren

Andre Royo
Spencer

LisaGay Hamilton
Rose

Felix van Groeningen
Director

Luke Davies
Screenwriter

Felix van Groeningen
Screenwriter

Brad Pitt
Producer

Dede Gardner
Producer

Jeremy Kleiner
Producer

Nan Morales
Executive Producer

Ruben Impens
Cinematographer

Nico Leunen
Film Editing

Ethan Tobman
Production Design

Patrick M. Sullivan Jr.
Art Director

Jennifer Lukehart
Set Decoration

Emma Potter
Costume Design

Francine Maisler
Casting

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Audience Reviews for Beautiful Boy

• Jan 15, 2019

  BEAUTIFUL BOY (2 Stars) Ugh. This isn't even a movie. There's no real story. It just keeps repeating itself to death and then ends. Yes, it mirrors the cycle of addiction that plague so many people, but that doesn't make for good storytelling. Timothée Chalamet does some great work when portraying his character's addiction to heroin, but I never believed him as a meth addict. There's a distinction that I don't think he quite captured. Steve Carell here has that annoying high pitch in his voice we typically see from Tom Cruise when he plays an end-of-his-rope character. Major points deducted for the terrible choice to edit a montage to "Sunrise/Sunset" from FIDDLER ON THE ROOF. Who thought that worked? I want names!!
  

  Glenn G Super Reviewer
• Jan 09, 2019

  One of the best and most moving movie endings I have seen, the film is well paced but the out of order story line can confuse. This version leaves a lot to be desired from the book, but the score picks it up and it soars. Timothee underwent a brilliant transformation to bring this character to light, some of his co stars also shine.
  Super Reviewer
• Dec 10, 2018

  It felt like it was taking this a long time to really find its groove and then I checked my phone to see where we were time-wise and it was an hour and a half in. Needless to say, Beautiful Boy has no groove to be found. Having not read the source material this may immediately mean less to me, but the structuring of this story as its done in the film doesn't help. It's not hard to see what the film is trying to do in telling the two parallel perspectives of the father and the son caught in this battle with addiction, but in doing so what results is a disjointed mess of a movie (at least upon first watch). We never spend long enough periods with either of the characters to garner any real sympathy for them-not until the end anyway when Carell brings it all home. It's kind of a weird movie too, but worse is the fact it's a boring weird movie. Every single aspect of these people's lives revolves around coping with addiction and addiction itself, but there has to be more in order to have the audience invest in these lives. I adore Steve Carell and Timothï¿ 1/2 (C)e Chalamet seems like a genuinely nice, cool, and grateful kid, but even their strenuous performances feel exhausting and void of any tangible pathos.
  

  Philip P Super Reviewer
• Nov 25, 2018

  The story's impact is almost diluted by the film's editing (with its jumps in time and flashbacks within flashbacks) and questionable choice of music, which makes it kind of emotionally stiff, even though that is compensated by two amazing performances by Timothée Chalamet and Steve Carell.
  Carlos M Super Reviewer