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This Boy's Life

Cast

Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Ellen Barkin, Chris Cooper View All


Crew

Michael Caton-Jones (Director), Robert Getchell (Screenplay) View All

Release: Apr. 9th, 1993
Runtime: 1 hour, 55 minutes
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...
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The Rodent
Year Of Release 1993 Director Michael Caton-Jones Producer Fitch Cady, Art Linson Writer Tobias Wolff, Robert Getchell Cast Leonardo Di Caprio, Robert De Niro, Ellen Barkin, Jonah Blechman, Eliza Dushku, Carla Gugino, Zack Ansley and Toby Maguire Notes This film was Toby Maguire's motion pictur....
Sexy Celebrity
Caroline eventually meets Dwight (De Niro) and after Jack gets in trouble at school, they're off to a small boondock town to live with Dwight and his kids.
Gideon58
When Toby starts acting out at school, Caroline decides to send Toby to live with Dwight in the neighboring town of Concrete, where it slowly comes to light that Dwight is control freak and an abusive psychopath.


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