 What's going on everyone? Got a brand new movie review for you guys today. Today I'm discussing Steve Forell and Timothy Shalman's new film, Beautiful Boy. Beautiful Boy is a father son story about David and Nick's chef and it chronicles the heartbreaking inspiring experiences of survival, relapse, recovery and a family coping with addiction over many years. Now David's chef is played by Steve Forell in here who gives a magnificent wonderful performance probably his best performance ever in his career. I mean he was fantastic in Foxcatcher but I think this is just elevated to another layer. There's one part in this film where he's sitting on the phone talking to Nick's chef, played by Timothy Shalman and when the phone call ends, I was in tears by just like Steve Forell's character and it was just empowering, powerful performance in there. And one of the other things in here is of course Nick's chef is played by Timothy Shalman who does play the drug addicted son in here. Before I get into this format, so I do wanna say this is a very heart wrenching and wrecking film. I, after this film, I went and sat in my car for 20 minutes and just sat there. I didn't leave, I didn't do anything. No music, nothing, I just stared at the steering wheel and just sat there and I started crying. Addiction is in my family. We do have someone in my family who is addicted to drugs. I'm not gonna get into my personal story but if you guys do wanna share your personal stories, I'd love to hear them down below in the comments. But I think we all have someone in our lives who have deal with addiction and addiction is a disease. I think people don't understand this and it's one of the main reasons why this film is needed to be seen because it's a film that is dealing with addiction and in showing that it is a truly big disease, it's not coming off preachy as well. It's coming off in a subtle manner but it's underlying message right there where addiction needs to be stapled so hard and needs to be seen as a real disease. It's heart wrenching. And this film hit me in a really soft spot and a hard spot because I do deal with stuff like this. My family has, I now see more stuff that my family has deal with that they kinda shed away from me because obviously they didn't want a younger kid knowing about this at the time. And it's tough to watch. And Timothy Shalman captured that addiction very well. The relapse, the recovery, the rehab, going through and doing the drugs and everything and it was very in your face. Like this is bad. And there's moments where you're just like, oh like cringing because you're like, oh my God, I can't believe that when you see him doing the drugs, when you see him doing the stuff and relapsing and going back and recovering it's like can you ever really believe what's going on, whatever comes out of his mouth? And that's what Timothy Shalman did so well. Is portraying an addict. If you ever know someone who's been an addict Timothy Shalman nailed it. If he was on the street and he walked up to me I would not have been able to tell the difference. It's not just because he lost 25 pounds or that he has all this makeup on him. No, it's the way that he switches from anger to sadness to frustration. Super, super fast and how he's just, you can tell in his face the way his facial structures moves, the way that he moves his body like this. It's just all captured so well and he easily gives one of the best performances of the year. If not the best performance of his career so far. I mean, seriously, this kid is going somewhere. You saw him and call me by your name. You haven't seen nothing yet. Let me tell you that. Arturian, Amy, Ryan also do show up in here and they're wonderful in here. They're both the supporting actresses in here and they're so damn good in here. Yes, they were gonna say, oh my God, Holly Flaks and Michael Scott are in the same movie. Yeah, but it's not a comedy. Which goes as far to say the people sitting behind me who just couldn't stop laughing or mumbling to themselves saying how that's so funny. Shut up. This isn't a funny movie. And you're very lucky that I didn't go off on you. Like, I was very frustrated by that. And this is a film, again, that I think a lot of people need to see because it tackles a very hard subject. If you don't like the film, I totally understand that. But I think this is a film that's gonna put this disease out in the limelight. And that's something that the director did so well is he put you into these family steps. He made you care about each and every one of them. And something that he does that is very risky. I mean, really, really risky, but nailed it. Makes this film not in chronological order, which at times can be a very risky move. This isn't something that when a lot of films try it, it doesn't work. One of them, the most notable films earlier this year, Vanishing of Sidney Hall, they tried it and it did not work at all. And it felt very off-tone. But beautiful boy tackles it in such a good way. He tackles it in the sense of where it's Steve Carell's character really you're in his shoes going about his story and telling his story about with his son. And there's moments where he'll flash back to a younger version of his son where they're going surfing, where they're at the cafe just talking and bonding with you. It makes you understand why he's doing all this for his son. Walk out of this film wanting to call your dad, wanting to call your family and tell them how much you love them. Because this film makes you care about them so much. It's you appreciate them even more too. I think that's why this film was tackled so well is because of that direction with the editing that it was in there. When I first saw it, I was sitting there a little bit choppy, but it felt uneven. And then when I sat on it, I was like, no, that was the perfect way to make me care so much about this relationship. Beautiful Boy is easily one of the best films of this year carried by such powerful performances and tackles such a heavy, heavy topic, but not in a pushing down your throat way just in the right manner of way. I loved Beautiful Boy. I understand if people don't, it's a hard film to watch. It's a hard reckoning film to watch. I don't know if I'll be able to watch it ever again, but I do emphasize that people do go and search out Beautiful Boy this weekend. But with all that said, I'm gonna give Beautiful Boy an A. Love this movie. I'll get it if you don't. I'll understand some of the shortcomings if you do get it. But everything was pushed aside due to the performances and the way that the story was told. I'm curious to hear your guys' thoughts on this one. So please comment down below. 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