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This Boy's Life
1993
· Movie
· 115 min
B
MEANRANK
73/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1751
- IMDb #1774
- Rotten Tomatoes #1814
- Metacritic #2078
- Letterboxd #1866
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2359
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1676
- Metacritic Critics #2492
- Metacritic Audience #1461
- Criticker #1257
- Kinopoisk #803
- AlloCiné #1885
- Trakt #1646
Every rating
55–92
out of 100
A teenage boy and his mother move to a small town in the 1950s to escape her abusive boyfriend. Her new husband initially seems charming but soon reveals himself to be a controlling and violently abusive stepfather. The boy dreams of escape and rebels against his oppressive home life, clinging to his ambitions for a better future despite the constant cruelty he endures.
Details
- Director
- Michael Caton-Jones
- Writer
- Robert Getchell
- Based on
- This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff
- Released
- 9 April 1993
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 115 min
- Rated
- R
- Box office
- $4.1M
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Awards
2 wins & 3 nominations total
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