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Beautiful Boy
Directed by
Shawn Ku
R
2010
1h 41m
Drama
6.6
71%
56%
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A married couple on the verge of separation are leveled by the news their 18-year-old son committed a mass shooting at his college, then took his own life.
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Cast of Beautiful Boy
Maria Bello
Kate Carroll
Michael Sheen
Bill Carroll
Alan Tudyk
Eric
Moon Bloodgood
Trish
Kyle Gallner
Sammy
Austin Nichols
Cooper
Meat Loaf
Motel Clerk
Bruce French
Harry
Deidrie Henry
Bonnie
Jessie T. Usher
Basketball Teen
Darren O'Hare
Church Pastor
Myra Turley
Grieving Mother Patty
Logan South
Young Sammy
Gregory Alpert
Baby Shower Carl / Web Reporter Voice
Kelli Kirkland
TV News Reporter
David Lipper
Radio Reporter (voice) / Television Ranter
Nigel Gibbs
Police Detective
Brooke Lyons
TV Reporter (voice)
Michael Call
TV Reporter (voice)
Cody Wai-Ho Lee
Dylan
Davidson Park
Other Basketball Player
Caleb Pearson
Other Basketball Player
Joshua Shannon
Other Basketball Player
Bella King
Motel Clerk’s Daughter
Drake Kemper
Teenage Burglar
Kylie Anderson
Bill’s Coworker
Tor Campbell
Bill’s Coworker
Judith DiGiacomo
Bill’s Coworker
Joe Dioletto
Bill’s Coworker
Mary Jane Gibson
Bill’s Coworker
Stephen Murano
Bill’s Coworker
Josephine Ullrich
Bill’s Coworker
Philip Zurfluh
Bill’s Coworker
Shawn Ku
Director / Writer
Michael Armbruster
Writer
Lee Clay
Producer
Eric Gozlan
Producer
Beautiful Boy Ratings & Reviews
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
An excruciating drama about a couple caught in the aftermath of a pivotal moment involving their college-age son.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
At a certain point lofty objectivity is just a refusal to engage, and no raw camera work can disguise it.
Seattle Times
Ted Fry
Most of "Beautiful Boy" is unrelentingly bleak and depressing, but there are smatterings of understatement and grace.
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
This feels like a movie that won a high school current-events contest: Take a tragedy, make a movie.
Arizona Republic
Bill Goodykoontz
Ku focuses on the effects the aftermath has on those intimately involved, and they are grim.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
The most daring aspect of the film, fully realized in Bello's grave performance, may be the notion that a parent can invest endless love in a child and one day find him unfathomable.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
If the key performances in "Beautiful Boy" were any less honest, the film's half-formed suppositions would undo it utterly.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Beautiful Boy is not an entertainment but an experience. And a kind of cinematic sensitivity training.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
A film like this can end honestly in only one way, and Ku is true to it.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
There is, however, despite the intensity of the acting, an obviousness to the scenes as they play out in what often feels like real time.
NPR
Jeannette Catsoulis
Painfully perceptive and relentlessly raw, this intimate observation of a couple in extremis plays out with such subdued intensity that, by the end, audiences will very likely feel as wrung out as its embattled stars.
Slant Magazine
Paul Schrodt
Its unmoored, oxygen-deprived atmosphere reflects the current mood of grief literature, inspired by Joan Didion's groundbreaking The Year of Magical Thinking.
New York Daily News
Joe Neumaier
Actors are left with too much time to play emotional symphonies, while inevitably having to hit too many required notes.
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
The relentlessly grim "Beautiful Boy" ends up being an endurance test.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Out of a premise horrifically familiar from tragedies at Columbine and Virginia Tech director Shawn Ku has crafted a film that will haunt you for a good long time.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
"Beautiful Boy" tiptoes into a minefield, where it loses its nerve and remains frozen in its tracks, too timid to find a way back.
AV Club
Nathan Rabin
A claustrophobic, punishingly intense, beautifully measured exploration of the depths of human despair.
Observer
Rex Reed
Beautiful Boy is a haunting, deeply disturbing but beautifully made film with depth and range about a dark subject...
Village Voice
Mark Holcomb
While Beautiful Boy is potent and even admirable (setting aside the question of why there are no scenes of the victims' parents' grief), it ultimately mistakes prim, emotional monotony for gravity.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Michael Sheen and Maria Bello both have wrenching moments in this quiet, oblique drama.
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