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Dominican Rep. This Boy's Life
- Original title
- This Boy's Life
- Year
- 1993
- Running time
- 114 min.
- Country
United States- Director
- Screenwriter
- Robert Getchell. Novel: Tobias Wolff
- Cast
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Robert De Niro
Ellen Barkin
Leonardo DiCaprio- Jonah Blechman
Eliza Dushku
Chris Cooper
Carla Gugino
Zachary Ansley- Tracey Ellis
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Drama | 1950s. Family Relationships. Teen/coming-of-age. Melodrama. Biography
- Synopsis
- 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.
- Awards
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1993: New York Film Critics Circle: Nominated for Best Supp. Actor (DiCaprio)1993: Los Angeles Film Critics Association: New Generation Award (DiCaprio)1993: Chicago Film Critics Awards: Most Promising Actor (Leonardo DiCaprio)
- Critics' reviews
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"Unfortunately, after a relatively promising warmup, pic actually proceeds to flatten out the characters in the latter sections and to make them less dimensional and interesting than they initially seemed."
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"Despite its admirable strengths and the fact of it being a true story, there is somehow a failure to completely connect with the fierce boy"
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