The film is directed by Belgian film director Felix van Groeningen (The Broken Circle Breakdown) from a screenplay by Luke Davies (Lion) and van Groeningen, Amazon will release Beautiful Boy in theaters on October 12, 2018.
Beautiful Boy is based on the best-selling pair of memoirs from father and son David and Nic Sheff.
The film chronicles the heartbreaking and inspiring experience of survival, relapse, and recovery in a family coping with addiction over many years.
The cast of Beautiful Boy includes Carell (Battle of the Sexes, Welcome to Marwen), Chalamet (Call Me By Your Name, Lady Bird), Maura Tierney (The Affair) as Karen Barbour, Kaitlyn Dever (Last Man Standing) as Lauren, Stefanie Scott (Insidious: Chapter 3) as Julia, Amy Ryan (Bridge of Spies) as Vicki Sheff and Jack Dylan Grazer (IT: Chapter 2, Shazam!) as young Nic Sheff.
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