This Boy's Life (1993)

Directed by

Michael Caton-Jones

Genre

drama film, biographical film, coming-of-age film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 55m

Rated

R

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 1,095 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A teenage boy moves with his mother to Seattle in the 1950s. He struggles to fit in at a new school and faces abuse from his stepfather.

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What happens

This Boy's Life (titled onscreen as This Boy's Life: A True Story) is a 1993 American biographical coming-of-age drama film directed by Michael Caton-Jones. It is based on the eponymous memoir by author Tobias Wolff. The film stars Robert De Niro, Ellen Barkin and Leonardo DiCaprio (in his first feature-film lead role). The cast also features Chris Cooper, Carla Gugino and Eliza Dushku, as well as Tobey Maguire in his first credited appearance in a feature film. It is the first on-screen collaboration of Maguire and DiCaprio, both of whom would work on Don's Plum (2001) and The Great Gatsby (2013). It is also the first on-screen collaboration of DiCaprio and De Niro, both of whom would work together in Marvin's Room (1996), the short film The Audition (2015) and Killers of the Flower Moon (2023). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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