Beautiful Boy

Beautiful Boy is not a how-to guide. It is a mirror. It forces you to look at the ugliest version of a disease and asks you to still see the beauty underneath.

Beautiful Boy became a Rosetta Stone for families who didn't understand why their "beautiful boy" or girl had turned into a thief or a corpse. The movie provides no easy answers. In fact, the movie rejects the 12-step certainty. It rejects the "tough love" approach (David tries it; it fails). It rejects the "enabling" approach (David tries it; it fails). Beautiful Boy