This Boy's Life

Synopsis
The story of a boy and his free-spirited mother in 1950's America who together try to make her new marriage work, hoping to conform to a husband and father who is cruel and old-fashioned.

Production Notes
Color by Technicolor.
Shot on location in Washington and Utah.

Rated BBFC 15 by the British Board of Film Classification.

Reviews
"...[De Niro's Dwight] is so well defined and complex that he gives point to everybody and everything around him..." (New York Times)

"...[DiCaprio fights De Niro] to an honorable draw, something few performers, and no other teenager, could do..." -- Rating: A (Entertainment Weekly)

"...Nicely acted....De Niro brings both a rough charm and ferocious power to Dwight....Leonardo DiCaprio is excellent..." (Variety)

"...The movie is very involving..." (Chicago Sun-Times)

"Undeservedly underseen....[A] great phooey-on-the-'50s memoir..." (USA Today)