Beautiful Boy

About Beautiful Boy

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.

Beautiful Boy (2018) is a drama film directed by Felix van Groeningen. It runs 121 minutes and was released in October 2018.

Steve Carell takes the lead as David Sheff, Timothée Chalamet as Nic Sheff, Maura Tierney as Karen Barbour, and Amy Ryan as Vicki Sheff. Written by Felix van Groeningen and Luke Davies. It was produced by Plan B Entertainment. The film began as a novel.

Members will find drug addiction, based on memoir or autobiography, psychological drama, and aimless youth in it. In the United States it streams on Amazon Prime Video and Amazon Prime Video with Ads.

Hillbilly Elegy, The Wolf of Wall Street, and The Pursuit of Happyness make useful companions to Beautiful Boy, all filed under drug rehabilitation. It scores 7.6 out of 10 from 2,981 TMDB voters and it carries a R rating.