This Boy's Life
1993 · 115 min
Directed by Michael Caton-Jones. Written by Robert Getchell, Tobias Wolff. Starring Robert De Niro, Ellen Barkin, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Blechman.
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.
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