This Boy's Life

• 7.132 Drama
• 1993-04-09
• 115 minutes mins

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.

Starring:

Robert De Niro (Dwight Hansen) Ellen Barkin (Caroline Wolff Hansen) Leonardo DiCaprio (Tobias Wolff) Chris Cooper (Roy) Eliza Dushku (Pearl) Jonah Blechman (Arthur Gayle) Kathy Kinney (Marian) Gerrit Graham (Mr. Howard) Carla Gugino (Norma) Zachary Ansley (Skipper)

Director:

Michael Caton-Jones

Writer:

Robert Getchell