When addiction is depicted in the arts, it’s often accompanied by an unstable home environment, bullying, abuse, or just simply an insufficiency of love. I say simply, though it most certainly isn’t. So many tender souls are lost in the absence of much deserved, much needed love and care.
Beautiful Boy is an addiction movie that turns that on its head. Felix van Groeningen’s 2018 masterful film follows the intricate relationship of a father and son wracked and torn apart by addiction.