This Boy's Life

(1993)

★ 7.1 IMDb · 1,115 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1993

Runtime: 115 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Michael Caton-Jones

Cast: Роберт Де Ниро, Эллен Баркин, Леонардо ДиКаприо, Jonah Blechman, Элайза Душку, Крис Купер, Карла Гуджино, Zachary Ansley, Tracey Ellis, Kathy Kinney

Plot

When a son and mother move to Seattle in hopes for a better life, the mother meets a seemingly polite man. Things go south when the man turns out to be abusive, endangering their lives. As the mother struggles to maintain hope in an impossible situation, the son has plans to escape.

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.