‘Beautiful Boy’ Trailer: Timothée Chalamet And Steve Carell Struggle With The Ugliness Of Drug Addiction
By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 27, 2018 6:06 am EST
Beautiful Boy Trailer
After Chalamet became the breakout star of Luca Guadagnino’s acclaimed 2017 film Call Me by Your Name, Hollywood waited with baited breath to see what his follow-up to his raw and devastating Oscar-nominated performance would be. And it looks like Beautiful Boy will live up to those high expectations.
Directed by Oscar-nominated Belgian director Felix Van Groeningen, Beautiful Boy is based off the memoirs of David Sheff and his son Nic Sheff, titled Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction and Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamine, respectively. The film chronicles the addiction and eventual recovery of Nic (Chalamet) as his father David (Carell) watches helplessly. Beautiful Boy also stars Maura Tierney and Amy Ryan.
“I’m attracted to craziness and you’re just embarrassed because I was like, this amazing thing, like your special creation or something and you don’t like who I am now,” an unhinged Nic says to his father, David, in the scene. “Who are you, Nic?” his father demands. He responds: “This is me, dad. This is who I am.”
Here is the official synopsis for Beautiful Boy:
Beautiful Boy opens in theaters on October 12, 2018.
Based on the memoir “Beautiful Boy” by David Sheff and “Tweak” by his son, Nic Sheff, Beautiful Boy chronicles the heartbreaking and inspiring experience of survival and recovery in a family coping with addiction over many years.
