Genre: Biographical / Drama
Directed by: Felix van Groeningen
Starring: Steve Carell, Timothée Chalamet, Maura Tierney
Running time: 120 minutes
New York Times writer David Sheff has a very difficult relationship
with his teenage son Nicholas, who is battling through sessions of therapy and
relapses of a severe addiction to methamphetamine. The father stands by his son
and fights for him constantly, though it might look from the outside like a
losing battle. This film is based on the memoirs published by David Sheff and
Nicholas Sheff.
I so wanted to love this movie, but I had a hard time getting into
it. Over the first half, the story kept jumping back and forth in a way that I
would not call seamless. Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet did their best to
carry their roles through, and they were quite good, but the storytelling felt
very muddled and confusing.
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