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This Boy's Life

Name: This Boy's Life
Genre: Drama
Released: 1993-04-09
Duration: 115 min
Cast: Robert De Niro, Ellen Barkin, Leonardo DiCaprio, Chris Cooper, Eliza Dushku

“He looked like the ideal husband. He seemed like the perfect father. That's just what they needed. But that's not what they got.”

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When a son and mother move to Seattle in hopes for a better life, the mother meets a seemingly polite man. Things go south when the man turns out to be abusive, endangering their lives. As the mother struggles to maintain hope in an impossible situation, the son has plans to escape.

Director: Michael Caton-Jones
Writers: Tobias Wolff, Robert Getchell
Language: English
Country: United States of America
Release date: 9 April 1993
Box office: $4,104,962

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