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This Boy's Life
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Based on on the memoirs of writer and literature professor Tobias Wolff, the movie follows Toby (Leonardo DiCaprio), a rebellious 50s teenager, who plans an escape as his stepfather believes violence is the best way to discipline him.
Based on on the memoirs of writer and literature professor Tobias Wolff, the movie follows Toby (Leonardo DiCaprio), a rebellious 50s teenager, who plans an escape as his stepfather believes violence is the best way to discipline him.
Actors:
Michael Bacall,
Thomas Kopache,
Adam Sneller,
Loni Ackerman,
Deanna Milligan,
Richard Liss,
Robert Zameroski
Michael Bacall
19 April 1973, Los Angeles, California, USA
Thomas Kopache
17 October 1945, Manchester, New Hampshire, USA
Adam Sneller
Loni Ackerman
Deanna Milligan
1972, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Richard Liss
Robert Zameroski
Director:
Michael Caton-Jones
Michael Caton-Jones
15 October 1957, Broxburn, West Lothian, Scotland, UK
Country:
United States
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February 08, 2010
De Niro and Birkin are reliable in this atmospheric drama, but it's DiCaprio who really shines.
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June 03, 2008
Nicely acted but excessively bland.
June 24, 2006
It's a rites-of-passage drama with the kind of period small-town setting that the director is making his own.
May 05, 2013
The film demands ominous electricity between Dwight and Toby, the latter of whom endures various and sundry humiliation and harm at the former's hands. And there are times when DiCaprio doesn't just go toe-to-toe with De Niro but feels just as tall.
February 08, 2010
Something more subtle is going on in Wolff's book, a confrontation with a richer, quirkier past and his emerging self that the movie too often brushes aside.
February 08, 2010
A young DiCaprio steals the show in this tale of learning how to be a man, with a sly De Niro also giving a good performance, but with a plot that drags on too long.
New York Times
May 20, 2003
This Boy's Life is so steeped in period detail (music, cars, television shows, hair styles) that Toby and Caroline's sad, bumbling search for freedom seems secondary, almost impolite to the decor.
December 31, 2006
A powerful if familiar family melodrama with a bravura performance from newcomer Leonardo DiCaprio, who's bound to become a major actor in the future.
February 08, 2010
The leads work overtime to make their characters and their relationships pungent, believable, and moving.
Rolling Stone
May 12, 2001
An indisputably great actor is inching toward the black hole of self-parody.