Beautiful Boy (2018)

The movie is based on a pair of best-selling memoirs by the San Francisco journalist David Sheff and his oldest son, Nic, that chronicled Nic’s descent into crystal-meth addiction.   The film manages to blend the books together, which ends with the dramatizing the perils of addiction from the inside and the outside.  It tells a heartbreaking true story and one that surely will resonate with viewers who’ve experienced addiction themselves. David (Steve Carell) has been a reasonably good father.  He is divorced with two children with his new wife, but Nic (Timothee Chalomet) is included in his newly transformed life.
While Nic's experience is portrayed, it is largely the story of  his father's anguished but impotent crusade to rescue his son from a life-destroying drug dependence.  But the more the film goes on, the more he realizes he’s doomed to fail. Nic is still the son he adores, but the lust for drugs takes on a harrowing life of its own.  You can see that Nic loves his family, but not more than he loves the high, and what he does to them is painful to watch.  It is a very believable movie that has one of the  happy endings that can be possible, and jsut how hard it is to reach.