This Boy's Life

Based on the true-life, award-winning book by Toby Wolff, two free spirits flee an abusive relationship to settle in the hopeful plains of the Pacific Northwest. Instead of the bright future he was promised, Tobias (DiCaprio) must endure the tyrannical and often brutal rule of his new stepfather Dwight (DeNiro), and show courage and a will to fight well beyond his years, to make the future he has always dreamed of.

Critic Reviews:

• " The beauty of This Boy's Life is in the details: this meticulously observed story gets the look of the late '50s down pat and, more important, captures the dissonance between the era's ideals of nuclear-family life and painfully deracinated reality. " – David Ansen

• " The film demands ominous electricity between Dwight and Toby, the latter of whom endures various and sundry humiliation and harm at the former's hands. And there are times when DiCaprio doesn't just go toe-to-toe with De Niro but feels just as tall. " – Nick Rogers

• " The leads work overtime to make their characters and their relationships pungent, believable, and moving. " – Jonathan Rosenbaum