No. 89 (2018) Beautiful Boy October 20th.

Film No 89 (2018) Oct. 20th.  11:00 AM  LUNA PALACE Leederville . 

"When I tried it I felt better than I ever had so I just kept on going." (Nic sits on his hospital bed and tries to explain to his Dad how his addiction began).

Beautiful Boy is a two hour trial of your emotions, but it is all for a greater cause. This insight into the effects on a family of the epidemic that is meth addiction will strike a chord, particularly if you are a parent of adolescents or young adults. Journalist David Sheff (Steve Carell) and son Nic (Timothee Chalamet) detailed their heart wrenching journey in two separate books; Beautiful Boy is the melding of their stories into a two hour screen experience. Carell is good but Chalamet is exceptional. The point of BB is to create awareness. An awareness that Meth addiction is an animal with its own beating heart. The change in Nic as we take this journey  is more than that of a young man who needs to change his ways, it parallels Linda Blair's Regan from The Exorcist. Beautiful Boy is frighteningly real and could well be the most important film of 2018. 10GUMS.