This Boy's Life |  | Director: Michael Caton-Jones
Actors: Robert De Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ellen Barkin, Jonah Blechman, Eliza Dushku
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  78 reviews
Sales Rank: 7632
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 115 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.5
MPN: 24619
ISBN: 0790777738
UPC: 085392461929
EAN: 9780790777733
ASIN: B00008DP4C
Theatrical Release Date: April 9, 1993
Release Date: May 13, 2003
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| • | For Toby Wolff and his divorced mom Caroline, 1950s life wasn't all fun and games. These two free spirits and cross-country travelers settle in the Pacific Northwest, where life will be better. They hope.This Boy's Life, the Wolffs' true story, "is every boy's life," the Los Angeles Times' Kenneth Turan wrote. The dynamic teaming of Robert DeNiro (Analyze This, Meet the Parents), Ellen Barkin (The |
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Product Description
A young rebellious teen struggles against an overbearing, tyrannical, alcoholic stepfather.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 7-SEP-2004
Media Type: DVD
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Robert De Niro gets top billing, but young Leonardo DiCaprio is the revelation of This Boy's Life, an astute, often painful drama of growing up in the 1950s Pacific Northwest, based on the autobiographical novel by Tobias Woolf. DiCaprio plays Tobias, a good kid with a bad boy streak but an unwavering love for his divorced mother (Ellen Barkin). "I want to be a better boy," he promises from under a greasy pompadour, and tries to prove it when she marries single father Dwight (DeNiro), a bully who parents through intimidation and humiliation. DiCaprio is magnetic in his first starring role, full of anger, hope, and confusion as he drifts back to juvenile delinquency, and his intensity gives the true story of survival and triumph its charge. DeNiro is frightening and pathetic as Dwight, and Dwight's youngest daughter is played by future star and vampire slayer Eliza Dushku. --Sean Axmaker
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 Dicaprio as a baby ! February 6, 2010
Nancy A. Fomenko (San Jose, CA , USA)
Masterful portrayal of the seduction of a domestic violence relationship. This one leaves the viewer with hope for the future.
 Oh , he had it so hard?! January 31, 2010
R. Bagula (Lakeside, Ca United States)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The young boy has an abusive step father and lives in a small Washington state town.
The late 50's early 60's weren't easy to grow up in, but
actually were pretty good times compared to the 30's.
The movie has the boy behaving badly because he doesn't have
a good male role model?
I think that saying he got ahead even while cheating and lying
may not be sending a good message? Other people actually work hard
in high school and get the grades he created for himself.
There is no doubt that Tobias Wolff got a bad break in starting his life off,
but he managed to put it back together with later hard work?
Most people never get a novel published about their lives
and then, a movie made of it.
De Nerio Upstaged !! June 8, 2009
D. Scott (CO USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Dicaprio is short of geneious in his roll of Abused Son...De Nerio, one of my favorites ,is very good in his roll too, but is much upstaged by Dicaprio, who at a very young age, gave probably, besides Tiatnic, and Whats eating gilbert Grape, a very demanding and concvining performance ever. What was most amazing was how young Dicaprio appears at the beginging of the movie. I swear it looks like the Director filmed this movie with a Real couple of years in between, so we could watch Dicaprio gently age. De Nerio's role demands that he playes such a hatful bullying father that he fools you into actually totally disliking him, which I feel his role is meant to be portrayed, and portarayed well it is!...Barkin is also very good, playing the role of Abused Woman Syndrome. Dont know the actual term for that syndrome, but it is very real and a sad coment on our "societal Hush Hush". Barkin Glows when she gets that.."Hey were out of here" additude. As the story progresse, she comes accross more as a sister than a mother...But after the hardships she indures in her personal life,..she demands better for her son. Oh, and WOW, check out the pompador Hair due on Dicaprio. This movie based on actual events is very grippig and heart breaking, and very much so because it continues right now as you read this review...Highly Recemonded, wounderful movie.
 Memorable, But Difficult To Watch June 5, 2009
Craig Connell (Lockport, NY USA)
This was a very haunting, sometimes very difficult story to watch unfold on screen. When it came out, I had never heard of Leonardo DiCaprio, but I wasn't alone as this was only his second or third time on screen. Anyway, he certainly gave a powerful performance and served notice he was going to be a "big name" actor.
Basically, it's about teenage kid and his mom trying to survive the mean father-husband of the family in a small town during the 1950s. Robert De Niro plays the dad and Ellen Barkin, the mom.
Leo plays "Tobias Wolffe;" De Niro, "Dwight Hansen" and Barkin, "Caroline Hansen." She had remarried Hansen after having "Toby" earlier, hence the surname "Wolffe."
What made this story tough for me was that, to be honest, neither father nor son were nice guys, although De Niro's character was far worse. The struggles - and that's putting it tactfully - between father and son were really nasty. Yet, as unpleasant at is, the story is memorable and it haunted me for several days, especially since it is "based" on a true story. How much of this was true, I can't say, but it is a dramatic story you will not dismiss.
Classic Leo DiCaprio February 14, 2009
Coeli C. Walker (Burlington, IA)
Love any movie with Leo! He is just an awesome actor and this movie is the start of his unbelievable acting career!
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