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This Boy's Life

Country: USA, Language: English, 115 mins

  • Director: Michael Caton-Jones
  • Writer: Tobias Wolff; Robert Getchell
  • Producer: Fitch Cady; Peter Guber

CGiii Comment

This self-serving piece of shit will no doubt win a mountain of fans - who will all feel so sorry for a kid who deserved a serious whacking - and that's what he got - deservedly so.

We hear howls of outrage - howl away. 

The performances are all above average.

The direction -  adequate.

It's the writing - if Wolff really is a professor of English literature - then, it is truly a sad day for the subject.

A rancid little ego with a whining voice: look how bad it was...but, didn't I do well.

Repugnant.


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The(ir) Blurb...

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 by hanging out with the wrong crowd. The mom marries the mechanic, but they soon find out that he's an abusive and unreasoning alcoholic, and they struggle to maintain hope in an impossible situation as the boy grows up with plans to escape the small town by any means possible. Based on a true story by Tobias Wolff.

Cast & Characters

Robert De Niro as Dwight Hansen;
Ellen Barkin as Caroline Wolff Hansen;
Leonardo DiCaprio as Tobias 'Toby' Wolff;
Jonah Blechman as Arthur Gayle;
Eliza Dushku as Pearl;
Chris Cooper as Roy;
Carla Gugino as Norma;
Zachary Ansley as Skipper;
Tracey Ellis as Kathy;
Kathy Kinney as Marian;
Robert Zameroski as Arch Cook;
Tobey Maguire as Chuck Bolger;
Tristan Tait as Jerry Huff;
Travis MacDonald as Psycho;
Richard Liss as A&P Manager