This Boy’s Life (1993) Movie Overview

“This Boy” is a song by British rock band The Beatles composed by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, and released in November 1963 as the B-side of the UK Parlophone single “I Want to Hold Your Hand”. The Beatles performed it live on 16 February 1964 for their second appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. It also appears as the third track on side one of US release, Meet the Beatles!. Its composition was an attempt by Lennon at writing a song in the style of Motown star Smokey Robinson, specifically his song “I’ve Been Good To You”, which has similar circular doo-wop chord changes, melody and arrangement, and Paul McCartney cites The Teddy Bears 1959 hit “To Know Him Is To Love Him” as also being influential. Lennon, McCartney, and George Harrison join together to sing an intricate three-part close harmony in the verses and refrain (originally the middle eight was conceived as a guitar solo, but altered during the recording process) and a similar song writing technique is exercised in later Beatles songs, such as “Yes It Is” and “Because”. An instrumental version of “This Boy”, orchestrated by George Martin, is used as the incidental music during Ringo Starr’s towpath scene in the film A… Source

• This Boy's Life Movie Details
• Director: Michael Caton-Jones
• Tagline: He looked like the ideal husband. He seemed like the perfect father. That's just what they needed. But that's not what they got.
• Country: USA
• Run Time: 115 min
• Genre: Biography , Drama

• Cast Overview
• Robert De Niro as Dwight Hansen
• Ellen Barkin as Caroline Wolff Hansen
• Leonardo DiCaprio as Tobias 'Toby' Wolff
• Jonah Blechman as Arthur Gayle
• Eliza Dushku as Pearl
• Chris Cooper as Roy

This Boy's Life Movie Details from Imdb

In 1957, a son and mother flee the East and an abusive boyfriend to find a new life, and end up in Seattle, where the mother meets a polite garage mechanic. The boy continually gets into trouble by hanging out with the wrong crowd. The mom marries the mechanic, but they soon find out that he’s an abusive and unreasoning alcoholic, and they struggle… Source

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