You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is our review of Beautiful Boy.

So how are you doing? I'm doing great, you know. I'm just, um, um, um, just doing what needs to be done?

What does that mean? I'm sorry, Dad. Um, why don't we just have lunch and talk? We can do that, right? Please, you think that you have this under control. I understand why I do things. It doesn't make me any different. You're just embarrassed because I was like, you know, I was like this amazing thing, like your special creation or something, and you don't like who I am now. Yeah, who are you, Nick? This is me, Dad. Here, this is who I am.

This is not you. This is not you, Nick.

What are you doing, huh?

You always got to be controlling everything all the time.

Let me, let me book your room at a hotel for a couple of nights.

No, Dad.

I wanted to go like this.

My son has gone missing.

Nicholas Sheff, S-H-E-F-F.

There's no one by that name, sir.

There are moments that I look at him.

This kid that I raised, who I thought I knew inside and out,

and I wonder who he is.

I thought we were close.

I thought we were closer than most fathers and sons.

Why?

I felt better than ever had, so I just kept on doing it.

This isn't us. This is not who we are.

My son is out there somewhere, and I don't know what he's doing.

I don't know how to help him.

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