'Beautiful Boy' Shows a "Loving Family" Dealing with Son's Addiction | TIFF 2018 - video Dailymotion

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"Too often people still think that being addicted is a moral failure and is a choice and is not a disease," 'Beautiful Boy' director Felix Van Groeningen told THR.

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00:00This is the story of a family going through a hiring period of their life when the dad

00:07discovers that his son is a drug addict.

00:10It's a beautiful portrait of a very loving family and shows how they deal with it.

00:16It's based on two memoirs, both David and Nick, the father and the son wrote their point

00:22of view and it just laid out in a very simple way how complex this issue is.

00:28Too often people still think that being addicted is a moral failure and is a choice and is

00:35not a disease and I felt that turning the story into a film had the potential of showing

00:42that to a lot of people.

'Beautiful Boy' Shows a "Loving Family" Dealing with Son's Addiction | TIFF 2018

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