Beautiful Boy (2010)

Directed by

Shawn Ku

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 40m

Rated

R

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 110 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A married couple, Bill and Kate, struggle to cope after their teenage son commits a school shooting and then kills himself. Their grief is complicated by the knowledge of what their son did.

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What happens

Beautiful Boy is a 2010 American drama film directed by Shawn Ku and written by Ku and Michael Armbruster. The film stars Michael Sheen and Maria Bello as Bill and Kate Carroll, a married couple whose lives unravel after their 18-year-old son Sam (played by Kyle Gallner) dies in a school shooting and is identified as the perpetrator. The supporting cast includes Alan Tudyk, Moon Bloodgood, Austin Nichols, Meat Loaf and Myra Turley. Beautiful Boy was released in the United States on June 3, 2011, by Anchor Bay Entertainment. The film grossed $140,123 in its limited theatrical run. Critical reception was mixed to positive: reviewers widely praised Sheen and Bello’s performances, while some criticized the film’s storytelling and approach to its subject matter. At the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival, it won the Prize of the International Critics (FIPRESCI) for the Discovery program. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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