Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

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Vlessing, Etan (July 24, 2018). "Toronto: Timothee Chalamet Starrer 'Beautiful Boy,' Dan Fogelman's 'Life Itself' Among Festival Lineup". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved July 24, 2018. Beautiful Boy is a fiercely candid memoir that brings immediacy to the emotional rollercoaster of loving a child who seems beyond help. The Marin Family Behind the Film Beautiful Boy". Marin Magazine. January 2019 . Retrieved March 13, 2019. a b Greer, Germaine (11 October 2003). "Why women just like to look". The Sydney Morning Herald . Retrieved 18 April 2022.

To spread the word, I wrote about our family’s experience in an article in the New York Times Magazine. When it hit the newsstands, I received an outpouring of letters from people who’d been or were then facing their own or a loved one’s addiction. Like I’d done, they’d kept it a secret, often from their closest family and friends, bcause they didn’t want to be judged. Blair, Ulanda (June 2008). "Now that I am a man I can go to war: Angela Lynkushka". Artlink . Retrieved 18 April 2022. He has a disease, but addiction is the most baffling of all diseases, unique in the blame, shame, and humiliation that accompany it.

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People tell of their heartbreak, but also of hope and healing. They say the movie validates their experience and they feel less alone. Some have written to say that it caused them to face their own or a loved one’s problem for the first time. A teenager wrote that she was addicted to pain pills and was suicidal, but no one – not even her family and friends – knew. After the movie, she went home and told her parents. She was afraid they’d yell and punish her, but instead they cried with her, embraced her and asked how they could help. She was beginning treatment. Sheff lives in Northern California with his wife, Karen Barbour, an artist, illustrator, and author of children's books. He has three children: Nic, Jasper, and Daisy Sheff. Nic Sheff, who has also written a memoir recounting his years of addiction in the book Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines, is a writer for television and film. [20] Jasper Sheff is a Grammy Award-nominated [21] musician who has cowritten and produced songs [22] for Lil Nas X, Elton John, [23] Halsey and XXXTentacion. Daisy Sheff is an artist whose paintings have been exhibited at White Columns Gallery, [24] Ratio 3, Clearing Gallery, [25] Grimm Gallery [26] and elsewhere. Sheff educates about addiction as a brain disease and is an advocate for putting addicts into therapy programs early. [15] [16]

There has been some criticism that the film omits a key element of Nic's story - that he worked as a gay hustler in San Francisco and New York to fund his drug addiction, even though Nic identified as heterosexual. This is covered in Nic's own memoir but not covered at all in the film. [33] Accolades [ edit ] Award In January 2019, High: Everything You Want to Know About Drugs, Alcohol, and Addiction was published. A resource for middle-school readers offering clear, direct information about the realities of drugs and alcohol, it is Sheff and his son Nic's first collaborative project. [11] Picture Perfect. Beautiful Boy, as well as Nic’s companion book, Tweak, were adapted into a 2018 film starring Steve Carell and Timothee Chalamet. Cold War' by Paweł Pawlikowski and 'High Life' by Claire Denis victorious at 45th Film Fest Gent". Film Fest Gent. October 19, 2018. Archived from the original on October 24, 2018 . Retrieved October 19, 2018.Timothée Chalamet plays a young man who succumbs to meth addiction and Steve Carell his distraught dad in this touching character study. a b Douglas-Fairhurst, Robert (31 October 2003). "Germaine Greer's synopsis of pubescent males in art is flawed, but fun". The Art Newspaper . Retrieved 19 April 2022. The book contains some 200 pictures of boys through the ages, and is a history of boys in Western art and classical mythology. [2] [10] [11] This includes an analysis of Classical, Neoclassical, and Renaissance art. [12] Pictures and discussions range from Cupid to Elvis, Boy George, Kurt Cobain, and Jim Morrison. [2]