Beautiful Boy —referring both to David Sheff’s 2008 memoir and the subsequent 2018 film starring Timothée Chalamet and Steve Carell—is not a story about a cute kid growing up. It is a visceral, unflinching autopsy of addiction. It is a horror story told in slow motion, framed through the eyes of a father who refuses to let go of his son.
Beautiful Boy —referring both to David Sheff’s 2008 memoir and the subsequent 2018 film starring Timothée Chalamet and Steve Carell—is not a story about a cute kid growing up. It is a visceral, unflinching autopsy of addiction. It is a horror story told in slow motion, framed through the eyes of a father who refuses to let go of his son.