A deeply moving portrait of a family's unwavering love and commitment to each other in the face of their son's addiction and his attempts at recovery. As David's son repeatedly relapses, the family are faced with the harsh reality that addiction is a disease that does not discriminate and can hit any family at any time. "Every last thing the movie shows us about addiction, and the effect it can have upon those who are trying to save an addict from himself, is entirely authentic."--Variety. "The acting is uniformly excellent, and the movie looks almost disconcertingly great..."--Entertainment Weekly. "The detachment at work in 'Beautiful Boy' suggests an attempt to speak clearly and truthfully, to resist the clichés of the addiction drama while acknowledging that those clichés can hardly be rewritten."--Los Angeles Times.

Based upon the New York Times best-selling memoirs by David Sheff and Nic Sheff.