Movies
April, 1993
The Biography of an author who grew up angry in the Pacific Northwest is filmed as a jarring family feud in This Boy's Life (Warner). Based on the book by Tobias Wolff, with a humane and sympathetic screenplay, the movie is heightened by several compelling performances. Opposite teenage newcomer Leonardo Di-Caprio, who plays young Toby in the Fifties as a sullen but feisty rebel, Robert De Niro goes for broke as the boy's abusive stepfather, a lout named Dwight. When he's not being aggressively...
