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This Boy's Life
A true story based on the award-winning book by Tobias Wolff.
A true story based on the award-winning book by Tobias Wolff.
Drama - 1993
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When a son and mother move to Seattle in hopes for a better life, the mother meets a seemingly polite man. Things go south when the man turns out to be abusive, endangering their lives. As the mother struggles to maintain hope in an impossible situation, the son has plans to escape.
Director:
,
Michael Caton-Jones
Cast:
,
Robert De Niro
,
Tobey Maguire
,
Chris Cooper
,
Leonardo DiCaprio
,
Ellen Barkin
,
Eliza Dushku
,
Carla Gugino
,
Jonah Blechman
,
Tracey Ellis
,
Robert Zameroski

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Rated:
R
Runtime:
115 min
Release date:
9 Apr 1993
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$4,104,962
Awards:
2 wins & 2 nominations

Top Critics Reviews

rotten:
This Boy's Life is so steeped in period detail (music, cars, television shows, hair styles) that Toby and Caroline's sad, bumbling search for freedom seems secondary, almost impolite to the decor.
– Vincent Canby,
New York Times,
20 May 2003
fresh:
It's a rites-of-passage drama with the kind of period small-town setting that the director is making his own.
– Wally Hammond,
Time Out,
24 Jun 2006
rotten:
Nicely acted but excessively bland.
– Todd McCarthy,
Variety,
3 Jun 2008
fresh:
The leads work overtime to make their characters and their relationships pungent, believable, and moving.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
8 Feb 2010
rotten:
Something more subtle is going on in Wolff's book, a confrontation with a richer, quirkier past and his emerging self that the movie too often brushes aside.
– Richard Corliss,
TIME Magazine,
8 Feb 2010
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