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Genres:
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Biography /
Drama /
Music
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Director:
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Michael Caton-Jones
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Actors:
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Jonah Blechman,
Tracey Ellis,
Zachary Ansley,
Kathy Kinney,
Robert De Niro,
Ellen Barkin,
Leonardo DiCaprio,
Eliza Dushku,
Chris Cooper,
Carla Gugino
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Duration:
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115 min.
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Rating:
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(7.3/10)80
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Plot Summary:
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In 1957, a son and spoil flee the East and an abusive boyfriend to discover a remodelled life, and end up in Seattle, where the matriarch meets a polite garage mechanic. The guy continually gets into trouble by hanging abroad with the wrong crowd. The mom marries the mechanic, but they any minute now bring to light evasion that he's an obscene and unreasoning boozer, and they contest to maintain hope in an out of the question site as the knave grows up with plans to escape the flat community by any means possible. Based on a story by Tobias Wolff.
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This Boy's Life
Extended in front DiCaprio achieved his brooch-up status through films such as William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet and Titanic, he was making nugatory and interesting movies this, an excellent adaptation of Tobias Wolff's autobiographical blockbuster in which he very nearly not on-acts De Niro. It's set in the 1950s, the Pacific Northwest of the USA. DiCaprio plays the maker, a troubled teenager who mixes with the wrong flock, while De Niro is Dwight, the winebibber, incorrect stepfather he longs to escape, and Barkin provides unfailing guy as Caroline, his long-tribulation mother who came west to seepage earlier calumnious boyfriends. Comparable to Stand By Me in its vision of 1950s America, this avoids nourishing clich?©s and preferab...
This Boy's Life
"...Nicely acted....De Niro brings both a cursory charm and ferocious power to Dwight....Leonardo DiCaprio is excellent..."
This Boy's Life
"...[De Niro's Dwight] is so by a long chalk defined and complex that he gives point to everybody and everything everywhere him..."
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