Filmmakers Bring Personal Stakes to Movies About Teen Addicts

Heroin kills and meth destroys, now more than ever. Hollywood has long dramatized the perils of adult drug addiction in films like Frank Sinatra’s The Man With the Golden Arm, Al Pacino’s breakout The Panic in Needle Park, Gus VanSant’s bleak Drug Store Cowboy, and the gonzo Trainspotting. But in the face of a 10 percent uptick in drug-related suicides in America last year according to a recent study,

Beautiful Boy‘s Production Designer Builds a World of Heartbreak & Hope

A desire for anonymity may be rare in the movie business, but production designer Ethan Tobman, whose credits include Room and most recently Beautiful Boy, doesn’t want audiences to notice his work.

“Whenever you’re designing contemporary drama, especially anything that’s inspired by real events, you want to support and create a unique world with an instant sense of intellectual and emotional empathy. And you want to do it subtly,” he says.

Writer/Director Felix van Groeningen on Music, Catharsis, and Crafting Beautiful Boy

Known for his critically-acclaimed film Broken Circle Breakdown, which was the Belgian entry for a Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award, writer/director Felix van Groeningen has been courted for years by Hollywood producers to helm his first English language film. He found the perfect project in Beautiful Boy, based on two bestselling memoirs by writers David and Nic Sheff. David’s book, from which the film gets its title, is about his journey dealing with his crystal meth and drug-addicted son Nic.

TIFF 2018 Announces First Slate of Buzzworthy Films

Toronto International Film Festival started rolling out their 2018 lineup today. Although not every TIFF selection is a world premiere, it is often the first time the press and the public get eyes and ears on award hopefuls. The immediate standouts include Beautiful Boy, A Star is Born, First Man, and The Hate U Give.

TIFF boasted,

Break Out the Tissues for This Trailer for Beautiful Boy

Amazon Studios has released the first heartrending trailer for Beautiful Boy. It promises to be a strong showing from the company as they continue rolling out more original content. Amazon has opted to release their films in theaters while also offering the streaming service to Amazon Prime members. The Beautiful Boy trailer is tense and tearjerking and is unlikely to be an easy watch.

Based on the bestselling memoirs,