Based on the best-selling pair of memoirs from father and son David and Nic Sheff, Beautiful Boy chronicles the heartbreaking and inspiring experience of survival, relapse, and recovery in a family coping with addiction over many years.
Timothée Chalamet scored a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor. We caught up with him and his Beautiful Boy costars at TIFF.
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Andre Royo, who plays Timothee Chalamet's sponsor, Spencer, is perhaps best known for previously playing a drug addict himself. He starred as drug addict, Bubbles, on The Wire.
David Sheff:
So how you doing?
Nic Sheff:
I'm doing great, you know, just, um... um... just doing what needs to be done, and...
David Sheff:
What does that mean?
Nic Sheff:
I'm sorry, Dad, um...
David Sheff:
Why don't we just have lunch and talk? We can do that, right? Please. You think that you have this ...
Nic Sheff:
...
When Nic is arranging his CDs, the amount of CDs in each of the four columns changes numerous times between shots.
During the end credits, Nic is heard reciting the poem "Let It Enfold You" by Charles Bukowski.
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