Beautiful Boy
Movie • 2018 • Drama
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After he and his first wife separate, journalist David Sheff struggles to help their teenage son, who goes from experimenting with drugs to becoming devastatingly addicted to methamphetamine.
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Abandonment
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Quite the opposite. Father sticks with his son through all of his toughest moments
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Addiction
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the main character is based on a real life person who has suffered from drug addiction
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drug abuse is a main plot point within this film
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a character is consensually injected with a drug by another character
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Does a woman get slapped?
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Is there body horror?
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Graphic injection scars all along a man’s arm.
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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when a character overdoses but is resuscitated by CPR, she struggles to breath when coming back to and chokes.
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Does someone have a seizure?
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The main character overdosed on drugs and begins to seize on the floor of a public washroom
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Does someone become unconscious?
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*Spoilers* After ODing, Nic can be seen unconscious under the floor from underneath a bathroom stall
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a teenager dies of an overdose and the mother is seen in mourning talking explicitly about her death.
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Death
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Does someone die?
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Someone is mentioned to have died of an overdose
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Disability
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Drugs/Alcohol
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nic overdoses at the end of the movie, he’s seen injecting himself with drugs then passing out on the floor, it talks about how the amount of drugs in his body should’ve killed him
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Are there natural bodies of water?
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Ocean is seen many times throughout the film
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Gross
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the first is at around 0:08:45 (no visual) and the second is 0:17:35 (visual but no sound)
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Large-scale Violence
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An ambulance is seen after Lauren OD’s
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Medical
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One of the main characters injects meth many times onscreen.
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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The scene only shows a drug rehabilitation center.
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Mental Health
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One of the main characters attempts to overdose and is seen writing what I would interpret to be a suicide note.
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What content?
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Is there misophonia?
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It is not portrayed in the movie, but many scenes could trigger misophonia.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
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We see a lot of scenes from nics perspective while he’s under the influence of meth and cocaine
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Does someone have a mental illness?
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Nic the main character battles with depression and anxiety the whole movie
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Natural Disasters
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Noxious
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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There are some flashing lights from car headlights when nic is driving alone whilst high but not too bad
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Does a baby cry?
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it's not a baby but a toddler does cry and scream
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Are there underwater scenes?
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kinda??? like hes in the shower and water is pouring in his head but not like actually underwater
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Paranoia
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I’m not sure if this counts but there’s a scene where nic and his girlfriend sneak into David’s house without knowing and he sees them come home and runs away
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Is there childbirth?
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Religious
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There’s a brief moment where a girl talks about her experience at rehab and she says it’s all about god
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Is there sexual content?
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there is a shower sex scene that shows very little nudity.
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Sexism
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Male character is sent to rehab and cries, and his father expresses a disappointment
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Sickness
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Does someone have a chronic illness?
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if you consider addiction a chronic illness, than yes, but otherwise no
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Is someone homeless?
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nic is without a home for a lot of the movie while he is on drugs
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Spoiler
Does it have a sad ending?
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Honestly, the movie is pretty bleak all the way through, but the screen titles at the end do assure you that the drug-addicted character is currently alive and 8 years clean so it could have been worse.
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Violence
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No gore, but a very very small amount of blood when a character injects drugs into them
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