Film

Beautiful Boy 2011

Directed by Shawn Ku

  • Drama
  • 101 min
  • R

To confront the truth, first they had to face each other.

A married couple on the verge of separation are leveled by the news their 18-year-old son committed a mass-shooting at his college, then took his own life.

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  • Harm to children
  • Suicide or self-harm

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Grave, contemporary, earnest and spare.

  • gravecomic
  • contemporarynostalgic
  • earnestironic
  • sparerichly built
  • classical in formformally daring

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