This Boy's Life
by Michael Caton-Jones
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Actor: Eliza Dushku, Ellen Barkin, Jonah Blechman, Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De NiroDirector: Michael Caton-Jones
Brand: WARNER HOME VIDEO
Cinematographer: David Watkin
Producer: Art Linson
Producer: Fitch Cady
Producer: Jon Peters
Producer: Peter Guber
Writer: Robert Getchell
Writer: Tobias Wolff
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 115 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-05-13
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Warner Home Video
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Movie Review: De Nerio Upstaged !!
Summary: 5 Stars
Dicaprio is short of geneious in his roll of Abused Son...De Nerio, one of my favorites ,is very good in his roll too, but is much upstaged by Dicaprio, who at a very young age, gave probably, besides Tiatnic, and Whats eating gilbert Grape, a very demanding and concvining performance ever. What was most amazing was how young Dicaprio appears at the beginging of the movie. I swear it looks like the Director filmed this movie with a Real couple of years in between, so we could watch Dicaprio gently age. De Nerio's role demands that he playes such a hatful bullying father that he fools you into actually totally disliking him, which I feel his role is meant to be portrayed, and portarayed well it is!...Barkin is also very good, playing the role of Abused Woman Syndrome. Dont know the actual term for that syndrome, but it is very real and a sad coment on our "societal Hush Hush". Barkin Glows when she gets that.."Hey were out of here" additude. As the story progresse, she comes accross more as a sister than a mother...But after the hardships she indures in her personal life,..she demands better for her son. Oh, and WOW, check out the pompador Hair due on Dicaprio. This movie based on actual events is very grippig and heart breaking, and very much so because it continues right now as you read this review...Highly Recemonded, wounderful movie.
Summary of This Boy's Life
Guys had ducktails. Cars had fins. War was over and America was on a roll. But 1950s life wasn't all fun and games -- especially for Toby Wolff and his divorced mom Caroline, free spirits whose cross-country travels end in the Pacific Northwest, where life will be better. They hope. Year: 1993 Director: Michael Caton Jones Starring: Robert De Niro, Ellen Barkin, Leonardo DiCaprioRobert 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. 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. 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. --Sean Axmaker
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