Movie Review
Actor Timothée Chalamet's star shines bright in 'Beautiful Boy'
In fact, he's the best reason to watch this film about a father's relationship with his meth-addict son
Belgian director Felix Van Groeningen first came to international attention when his 2013 film The Broken Circle Breakdown - a raw, bluegrass-infused tale of the ups and downs of a relationship - earned him a best foreign language Oscar nomination.
For his first English-language feature, Van Groeningen has chosen to adapt the father-and-son addiction memoirs of David and Nic Sheff - one written by a writer struggling to understand how his beautiful, privileged son became a meth addict, and the other giving the son's version.
Van Groeningen and writer Luke Davies attempt, with varying levels of success, to craft a story that combines elements of both books but mostly examines the story of Nic (Timothée Chalamet) from the perspective of his increasingly alienated and perplexed father (Steve Carell).
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