Beautiful Boy
Movie • 2018 • Drama
ReportAfter 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.
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Quite the opposite. Father sticks with his son through all of his toughest moments
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the main character is based on a real life person who has suffered from drug addiction
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drug abuse is a main plot point within this film
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a character is consensually injected with a drug by another character
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Graphic injection scars all along a man’s arm.
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when a character overdoses but is resuscitated by CPR, she struggles to breath when coming back to and chokes.
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*Spoilers* After ODing, Nic can be seen unconscious under the floor from underneath a bathroom stall
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The main character overdosed on drugs and begins to seize on the floor of a public washroom
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a teenager dies of an overdose and the mother is seen in mourning talking explicitly about her death.
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Someone is mentioned to have died of an overdose
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nic overdoses at the end of the movie, he’s seen injecting himself with drugs then passing out on the floor, it talks about how the amount of drugs in his body should’ve killed him
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the first is at around 0:08:45 (no visual) and the second is 0:17:35 (visual but no sound)
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The scene only shows a drug rehabilitation center.
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One of the main characters injects meth many times onscreen.
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One of the main characters attempts to overdose and is seen writing what I would interpret to be a suicide note.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Does someone have a mental illness?
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Nic the main character battles with depression and anxiety the whole movie
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We see a lot of scenes from nics perspective while he’s under the influence of meth and cocaine
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kinda??? like hes in the shower and water is pouring in his head but not like actually underwater
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I’m not sure if this counts but there’s a scene where nic and his girlfriend sneak into David’s house without knowing and he sees them come home and runs away
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There’s a brief moment where a girl talks about her experience at rehab and she says it’s all about god
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there is a shower sex scene that shows very little nudity.
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Male character is sent to rehab and cries, and his father expresses a disappointment
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Does someone have a chronic illness?
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nic is without a home for a lot of the movie while he is on drugs
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Does it have a sad ending?
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Honestly, the movie is pretty bleak all the way through, but the screen titles at the end do assure you that the drug-addicted character is currently alive and 8 years clean so it could have been worse.
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No gore, but a very very small amount of blood when a character injects drugs into them
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