Beautiful Boy – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Beautiful Boy Ending (Spoilers) [adinserter name=”General Ads”] For years Nick has struggled with addiction. It started with just relying on weed to take the edge off and the escape that provided evolved to cocaine, and other drugs, leading to crystal meth. All the while, his family suffered in trying to help him. His dad, David,…
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Beautiful Boy Ending (Spoilers)
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For years Nick has struggled with addiction. It started with just relying on weed to take the edge off and the escape that provided evolved to cocaine, and other drugs, leading to crystal meth. All the while, his family suffered in trying to help him. His dad, David, especially who would drop everything to be a one-man search party. However, there comes a point when David asks himself: Where is that line where perseverance meets fighting for a lost cause?
After all, with his second wife Karen, he has two kids who are not even teenagers yet and he can’t keep abandoning them for his oldest. He can’t keep exposing them to Nick being well and the big brother they deserve to disappearing on them. Jasper, the middle child, seems to know Nick is on drugs. So comes the question, when will enough be enough? Also, how will this story end? Will it be with David embracing his son who is clean, healthy, and a vibrant writer or will the only thing of David’s embracing Nick be his tears?
Well, in the long run, despite overdosing a few times, relapsing after being clean a few times as well, never mind dragging another person into his addiction and them nearly dying, Nick does get clean. In fact, we’re told he is 8 years clean during the end credits. Meaning, he did make it after all.
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