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Dominican Rep. This Boy's Life
7,689
Drama
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 ... [+]
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"The leads work overtime to make their characters and their relationships pungent, believable, and moving." | POS |
United Kingdom |
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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" | NEU |
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United States |
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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." | NEU |
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United States |
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"No one but Tobias Wolff knows how much dramatic license was used in writing his memoirs, but, on the whole, This Boy's Life has the ring of truth (...) The film is well-paced and expertly edited" | POS |
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United States |
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"The movie follows the surface of the original, but loses its spirit (...) De Niro appears to be acting in a movie that is far tougher than the one that Mr. Caton-Jones has made." | NEU |
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