This Boy’s Life was DiCaprio’s first major role in a film and helped put him on Hollywood’s radar. Because it was DiCaprio’s first experience working in the movie business, This Boy’s ...

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In 1957, a son and mother flee the East and an abusive boyfriend to find a new life, and end up in Seattle, where the mother meets a polite garage mechanic. The boy continually gets into trouble ...

Despite its admirable strengths and the fact of it being a true story, there is somehow a failure to completely connect with the fierce boy, giving his unhappy and alienating youth an unfortunate ...

where he became one of Scotland's most successful Directors while making hit movies including Memphis Belle, Doc Hollywood, This Boy's Life, Rob Roy and The Jackal.

This Boy’s Life was DiCaprio’s first major role in a film and helped put him on Hollywood’s radar. Because it was DiCaprio’s first experience working in the movie business, This Boy’s ...

The parental arguing, the appearance of David’s kindly grandmother (Yuh-Jung Youn) who’s come to stay with them (“She smells like Korea,” the boy complains), the fish-outta-water ...

he's always fascinating, even when the movie isn't. A career highpoint for director Michael Caton-Jones, This Boy's Life also provides one of Robert De Niro's most memorably mannered performances ...

“Close” begins in an idyll of childhood friendship, with two boys at play — running through ... and hoped was not coming — that splits the movie in two. What had been a delicate ...