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Movie Talk: The Oath, Beautiful Boy, Wildlife, and What They Had

By The Critic & The Ref
October 12, 2018
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Beautiful Boy
Teenager Nicolas Sheff seems to have it all — good grades, editor of the school newspaper, actor, artist and athlete. When Nic’s addiction to meth threatens to destroy him, his desperate father does whatever he can to save his son and his family.

Director: Felix van Groeningen
Screenplay: Luke Davies and Felix van Groeningen
Based on David Sheff’s memoir of the same name and on Nic Sheff’s memoir “Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines”
Cast: Steve Carell, Timothée Chalamet, Maura Tierney, and Amy Ryan
Distributor: Amazon Studios
Release Date: October 12, 2018 (in NY and LA), expanding nationwide in the following weeks
Runtime: 1 hour 52 minutes
Genre: Biography, Drama
Rated R

 

 

 

 

Wildlife
Fourteen-year-old Joe is the only child of Jeanette and Jerry — a housewife and a golf pro — in a small town in 1960s Montana. Nearby, an uncontrolled forest fire rages close to the Canadian border, and when Jerry loses his job — and his sense of purpose — he decides to join the cause of fighting the fire, leaving his wife and son to fend for themselves. Suddenly forced into the role of an adult, Joe witnesses his mother’s struggle as she tries to keep her head above water.

Director: Paul Dano
Screenplay: Dano and Zoe Kazan
Based on Richard Ford’s novel of the same name
Cast: Carey Mulligan, Ed Oxenbould, Bill Camp, and Jake Gyllenhaal
Distributor: IFC Films
Release Date: October 19, 2018
Runtime: 1 hour 44 minutes
Genre: Drama
Rated PG-13

 

 

 

 

What They Had
At the urging of her brother, a woman returns to Chicago to visit her father and mother — the latter now suffering from Alzheimer’s disease.

Director: Elizabeth Chomko
Screenplay: Elizabeth Chomko
Cast: Hilary Swank, Michael Shannon, Robert Forster, Taissa Farmiga, with Josh Lucas and Blythe Danner
Distributor: Bleecker Street
Release Date: October 19, 2018
Runtime: 1 hour 41 minutes
Genre: Drama
Rated R

 

 

 

 

 

The Oath
In a politically divided America, a man struggles to make it through the Thanksgiving holiday without destroying his family.

Director: Ike Barinholtz
Screenplay: Ike Barinholtz
Cast: Ike Barinholtz, Tiffany Haddish, Nora Dunn, Chris Ellis, Jon Barinholtz, Meredith Hagner, Carrie Brownstein, John Cho, and Billy Magnussen
Distributor: Roadside Attractions and Topic Studios
Release Date: October 12, 2018
Runtime: 1 hour 33 minutes
Genre: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Rated R

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