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Those are the wrenching questions that haunted every moment of David Sheff’s journey through his son Nic’s addiction to drugs and tentative steps toward recovery.
D'Alessandro, Anthony (February 15, 2018). "Steve Carell & Timothée Chalamet Title 'Beautiful Boy' Sets Fall Release". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved February 15, 2018. He became unrecognisable. He broke into our home, stole from us and even from his beloved little brother, Jasper. Every time I thought it couldn’t get worse, it did. Nic was arrested. Once, an ER doctor called to say he might have to amputate Nic’s arm, which had become infected because of IV drug use. He overdosed more than once. Another ER doctor called one predawn and said: “Mr Sheff, you’d better get down here. We don’t know if your son’s going to make it.” My generation experimented with drugs and, now that we are parents, we’re caught off guard. We never contemplated having to face what David Sheff has faced. He writes with candor, courage, and grace his family’s harrowing – and sadly not atypical – story. Beautiful Boy is an important book. It is moving, timely, and sobering. It’s also startlingly beautiful.”Picture Perfect. Beautiful Boy, as well as Nic’s companion book, Tweak, were adapted into a 2018 film starring Steve Carell and Timothee Chalamet. McGrath, Charles (February 26, 2008). "A Twice-Told Tale of Addiction: By Father, by Son". The New York Times. New York City . Retrieved January 16, 2009. Ford, Rebecca (February 6, 2017). "Sundance Breakout Timothee Chalamet Joining Steve Carell in 'Beautiful Boy' (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved March 27, 2017. a b Douglas-Fairhurst, Robert (31 October 2003). "Germaine Greer's synopsis of pubescent males in art is flawed, but fun". The Art Newspaper . Retrieved 19 April 2022. Toronto International Film Festival Announces 2018 Award Winners" (PDF) (Press release). Toronto: Toronto International Film Festival. September 16, 2018. Archived (PDF) from the original on October 17, 2018 . Retrieved October 17, 2018.
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N'Duka, Amanda (March 30, 2017). "LisaGay Hamilton Books 'Beautiful Boy' & 'The Last Full Measure'; 'Most Likely To Murder' Adds More Suspects". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved March 30, 2017. Greer, Germaine (7 December 2002). "Country notebook: beautiful boys cause bedlam". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 18 April 2022. In 2008, it was announced that Paramount Pictures and Plan B Entertainment had acquired film rights to the books Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction, by David Sheff, and Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines, by his son Nic Sheff. Both are about Nic's addiction and eventual recovery. The studio and producers were announcing that they would use the recently published books to frame a picture about drug addiction, from the perspective of both a young meth addict and the father who finds himself helpless to stop his son's downward spiral. [7] In 2011, it was announced that writer and director Cameron Crowe had written a script based on the books. [8] In 2012, TheWrap reported that Crowe was looking to direct the film from his own script after wrapping his romantic film Aloha, with New Regency becoming involved in the project after Paramount dropped out. [9] In December 2013, it was reported that Mark Wahlberg was circling the role of David Sheff, with Crowe still attached to direct. [10] Abdolmaleki, Kara (November 2013). "The Female Gaze in The Blind Owl by Sadeq Hedayat and Lost Highway by David Lynch". Iranian Studies. 46 (6): 906. doi: 10.1080/00210862.2013.810072. ISSN 0021-0862. S2CID 161738859.How is it that, today, I actually don’t totally hate myself?" Nic said in an article he penned for The Fix. "The only thing I can say is that I actually started listening and started doing what those counselors and psychiatrists and people in meetings were telling me to do. Hell, it was no big secret. They’d been prescribing me medication, telling me what outpatient groups to go to, what doctors to see, what steps to take. I just didn’t listen. I didn’t listen and I didn’t believe." In Prizes Awarded At ADL Film Fest Ceremony" (Press release). Adelaide: Adelaide Film Festival. October 16, 2018. Archived from the original on October 17, 2018 . Retrieved October 17, 2018. In the vacant theatre I trembled. It was the first time I’d faced the reality that it wasn’t only a miracle that Nic survived his addiction. We could have had to live with the knowledge that he’d killed someone, too.