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Beautiful Boy
Drama
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.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who value emotionally direct addiction dramas focused on family devotion, relapse, and the limits of parental love.
- Tone
- melancholic, bleak, sentimental
- Payoff
- heartbreak, catharsis
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- non-linear
- Themes
- addiction, family bonds, parental helplessness, relapse, unconditional love
- Setting
- contemporary, Northern California homes, clinics, and recovery facilities
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Amazon Prime Video
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