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| Title | This boy's life | Year | 1993 | |||||||||
| Director | Michael Caton-Jones | Writer | Tobias Wolff (book) Robert Getchell (screenplay) |
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| Country | USA | Language | English | |||||||||
| Cast | Robert De Niro, Ellen Barkin, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Blechman, Eliza Dushku, Chris Cooper, Carla Gugino, Zachary Ansley, Tracey Ellis, Kathy Kinney, Robert Zameroski, Tobey Maguire, Tristan Tait, Travis MacDonald | |||||||||||
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Robert De Niro gets top billing, but young Leonardo DiCaprio is the revelation of This Boy's Life, an astute, often painful drama of growing up in the 1950s Pacific Northwest, based on the autobiographical novel by Tobias Woolf.
Leonardo DiCaprio plays Tobias, a good kid with a bad boy streak but an unwavering love for his divorced mother (Ellen Barkin). "I want to be a better boy," he promises from under a greasy pompadour, and tries to prove it when she marries single father Dwight (DeNiro), a bully who parents through intimidation and humiliation.
Leonardo DiCaprio is magnetic in his first starring role, full of anger, hope, and confusion as he drifts back to juvenile delinquency, and his intensity gives the true story of survival and triumph its charge.
DeNiro is frightening and pathetic as Dwight, and Dwight's youngest daughter is played by future star and vampire slayer Eliza Dushku
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The issues it touches are single mothers, abusive fathers, and homosexuality. This last topic is intertwined with the issue of bullying. Two other boys look upon the gay boy as being weak just because he was gay. They convince Dwight (Leonardo) to pick a fight with this boy. The gay boy wins the fight and he and Leonardo become friends due to a mutual interest in playing the piano. Dwight, going to a new school at high school age, which is always a difficult adjustment, is desperately in need of friends.
In addition, there is a wonderful conclusion to Dwight's problems with his abusive father (Robert Deniro).
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A cruel story of a boy and his mother with a hard stepfather. The pressure of Dwight on his stepson is immense. Very well portraited by excellent actors and a great director. A good movie, two thumbs up! |
Dwight Hansen [To his new wife]: You can get it doggy-style or you can get it laying on your side. Those are your only choices. This is my house and I get to say. Got it? |
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