Addiction… In The Movies

By | May 15th, 2019|LRO 153|

  “Beautiful Boy” is a film currently on general release. It is based on the memoir, Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction  by David Sheff, and Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines by Nic Sheff (his son). I personally found the film quite clichéd, though its point of interest lies elsewhere. Namely, in the way it presents the contemporary [...]