Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

Product Information

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.” a b O'Byrne, Robert (11 October 2003). "Messed up about a boy". The Irish Times . Retrieved 19 April 2022. Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now". The New York Times. April 28, 2021. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved September 30, 2021. Kroll, Justin (September 22, 2015). "Felix van Groeningen to Direct 'Beautiful Boy' for New Regency and Plan B (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety . Retrieved August 22, 2017. 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]

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. Author David Sheff Focuses on the War on Prevention". KLEAN Treatment Centers. August 1, 2013 . Retrieved January 23, 2019. Sheff, David (2009). Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction. Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 149. ISBN 978-0547347929. The 2019 Oscar Nomination Snubs Of Timothee Chalamet, Claire Foy, & More Really Sting". Bustle . Retrieved March 14, 2021.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.” Outstanding Contributions to Advancing the Understanding of Addictions". Society of Addiction Psychology . Retrieved July 26, 2021.

Greer, Germaine (7 December 2002). "Country notebook: beautiful boys cause bedlam". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 18 April 2022.This supersensitive and tasteful movie is all but insufferable, suppressing a sob at the tragedy of drug addiction afflicting someone so young and “beautiful”. It is based on what is effectively a matching set of memoirs: Beautiful Boy, by author and journalist David Sheff, his harrowing account of trying to help his son Nic battle crystal meth addiction, and Tweak – by Nic Sheff himself, about these same experiences, the author now, thankfully, eight years clean. The book was the subject of controversy due to its cover photo and topic matter. The subject of the book's cover picture, Björn Andrésen, stated that his permission was not attained for the photo's use. [5] [6] [7] Some writers characterised the book's nature as paedophilic. [8] [9] [7] She argues that young male beauty conveys "male vulnerability" and can be "sexualised with impunity", via the "female gaze". [12] She also says that boys are "debarred from phallic power", [12] [20] and that they are compelled by patriarchy to "annihilate the boy in him and confine himself to the narrower scope available to him in patriarchal society". [12] [21] [22] She proposes that "[Campaigners] against 21st-century sex tourism see the traffic as one-way. Their activities are inspired by horror and compassion for children who are forced by economic necessity to have sex that they are not ready for with older people they could not possibly desire. (This assumption itself should cast some doubt on the campaigners' own motives.) When she was studying the 'bad' sexualised mother, the great Melanie Klein asked herself in a note: 'Who is seducing whom? '" [23] [24]