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Based on on the memoirs of writer and literature professor Tobias Wolff, the movie follows Toby (Leonardo DiCaprio), a rebellious 50s teenager, who plans an escape as his stepfather believes violence is the best way to discipline him.

Genre:

Drama, Biography

Actors:

Robert De Niro, Ellen Barkin, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Blechman, Eliza Dushku, Chris Cooper, Carla Gugino, Zachary Ansley, Tracey Ellis, Kathy Kinney, Robert Zameroski, ...»

Director:

Michael Caton-Jones

Country:

United States

Release:

1993

IMDb:

7.3

Quality:

Duration:

115 min

Variety

Nicely acted but excessively bland.

June 03, 2008

Movie Metropolis

Well acted, but bleak and slow-moving.

June 21, 2005

Suite101.com

The film demands ominous electricity between Dwight and Toby, the latter of whom endures various and sundry humiliation and harm at the former's hands. And there are times when DiCaprio doesn't just go toe-to-toe with De Niro but feels just as tall.

May 05, 2013

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Chicago Reader

The leads work overtime to make their characters and their relationships pungent, believable, and moving.

February 08, 2010

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EmanuelLevy.Com

A powerful if familiar family melodrama with a bravura performance from newcomer Leonardo DiCaprio, who's bound to become a major actor in the future.

December 31, 2006

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Rolling Stone

An indisputably great actor is inching toward the black hole of self-parody.

May 12, 2001

Empire Magazine

A young DiCaprio steals the show in this tale of learning how to be a man, with a sly De Niro also giving a good performance, but with a plot that drags on too long.

February 08, 2010

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Time Out

It's a rites-of-passage drama with the kind of period small-town setting that the director is making his own.

June 24, 2006

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New York Times

This Boy's Life is so steeped in period detail (music, cars, television shows, hair styles) that Toby and Caroline's sad, bumbling search for freedom seems secondary, almost impolite to the decor.

May 20, 2003

Film4

De Niro and Birkin are reliable in this atmospheric drama, but it's DiCaprio who really shines.

February 08, 2010

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TIME Magazine

Something more subtle is going on in Wolff's book, a confrontation with a richer, quirkier past and his emerging self that the movie too often brushes aside.

February 08, 2010

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