Beautiful Boy

This is the movie that made me fall in love with Timothee Chalamet. And a golden performance as always by Steve Carrell. It is a gutting movie, but an important story to be told.

Timothee Chalamet gives an outstanding performance ans Steve Carell is right up there with him. Their emotions come through strongly and carry the story. Though unfortunately the story-line feels predictable. The flashbacks were more distracting than endearing. And those aspects hold the film back.

This film could have been bogged down with its flashbacks and some narrative cliches, but man do Carell and Chalamet's performances make this film soar. 9/10.

This film tells the sombre story of a young man hooked on drugs, and how the family members cope with the tragedy.

The story is depressing and sombre, and gets you down. This aspect is distinctly different from "Ben Is Back" which I watched yesterday. The music is sombre, the shots are slow, and the interaction do not give much hope either. The acting is brilliant though. This film hopefully will serve as an alarm for anyone who wishes to try drugs.

I am a heroin and meth addict with 3 years of sobriety. I currently work in a treatment center and I periodically show this movie in my groups, this movie is the best depiction I have ever seen of the life of addiction. It's heartbreaking to watch myself because it parallels my story very closely. The way addiction is shown is so raw and true, the overdoses, the shame, the guilt, the question of why that can never be answered. It's beautiful and heart wrenching, it's honestly not easy to watch but it is accurate (too a point, addicts know a few things that are a little wrong but that's small specifics) and the acting is phenomenal.