Directed by:
Michael Caton-JonesScreenplay:
Robert GetchellCinematography:
David WatkinComposer:
Carter BurwellCast:
Robert De Niro, Ellen Barkin, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Blechman, Eliza Dushku, Chris Cooper, Carla Gugino, Tobey Maguire, Michael Bacall, Deanna Milligan (more)VOD (3)
Plots(1)
Based on the true-life, award-winning book by Toby Wolff, two free spirits flee an abusive relationship to settle in the hopeful plains of the Pacific Northwest. Instead of the bright future he was promised, Tobias (Leonardo DiCaprio) must endure the tyrannical and often brutal rule of his new stepfather Dwight (Robert De Niro), and show courage and a will to fight well beyond his years, to make the future he has always dreamed of. (Via Vision Entertainment)
(more)Cast
![Robert De Niro](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/163/725/163725860_6555e2.jpg)
Robert De Niro
USA
Best movies:
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980 (1992) (TV movie)
The Godfather: A Novel for Television (1977) (series)
The Godfather: Part II (1974)
![Ellen Barkin](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/267/267837_2db82b.jpg)
Ellen Barkin
USA
Best movies:
Down by Law (1986)
This Boy's Life (1993)
Up in Smoke (1978)
![Leonardo DiCaprio](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/528/164528269_954405.png)
Leonardo DiCaprio
USA
Best movies:
Inception (2010)
Django Unchained (2012)
Shutter Island (2010)
Jonah Blechman
USA
Best movies:
This Boy's Life (1993)
Fall Time (1995)
Swan Song (2021)
![Eliza Dushku](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/150/164150931_8c3996.jpg)
Eliza Dushku
USA
Best movies:
This Boy's Life (1993)
True Lies (1994)
Batman: Year One (2011)
![Chris Cooper](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/451/161451798_503ea7.png)
Chris Cooper
USA
Best movies:
American Beauty (1999)
The Bourne Supremacy (2004)
The Bourne Identity (2002)
![Carla Gugino](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/163/751/163751049_cdaea3.jpg)
Carla Gugino
USA
Best movies:
American Gangster (2007)
This Boy's Life (1993)
Sin City (2005)
![Tobey Maguire](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/934/162934054_64507d.jpg)
Tobey Maguire
USA
Best movies:
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) - a.f.
The Cider House Rules (1999)
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
Michael Bacall
Best movies:
Django Unchained (2012)
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
This Boy's Life (1993)
![Deanna Milligan](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/274/274227_de7942.jpg)
Deanna Milligan
Canada
Best movies:
This Boy's Life (1993)
Intensity (1997) (TV movie)
Family Sins (2004) (TV movie)
![Sean Murray](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/166/038/166038147_e39d01.jpg)
Sean Murray
USA
Best movies:
This Boy's Life (1993)
Hocus Pocus (1993)
The Sleepwalker Killing (1997) (TV movie)
![Thomas Kopache](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/127/158127240_5afe42.jpg)
Thomas Kopache
USA
Best movies:
Catch Me If You Can (2002)
Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
No Country for Old Men (2007)
![Lee Wilkof](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/030/247/30247488_986749.jpg)
Lee Wilkof
USA
Best movies:
This Boy's Life (1993)
Private Parts (1997)
An Early Frost (1985) (TV movie)
![Gerrit Graham](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/336/158336094_57bb60.jpg)
Gerrit Graham
USA
Best movies:
This Boy's Life (1993)
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Chaotic Ana (2007)
![Stephen E. Miller](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/129/160129694_2ebf6e.jpg)
Stephen E. Miller
Best movies:
First Blood (1982)
After the Promise (1987) (TV movie)
This Boy's Life (1993)
![Kathy Kinney](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/163/096/163096666_29c492.jpg)
Kathy Kinney
USA
Best movies:
This Boy's Life (1993)
Inherit the Wind (1988) (TV movie)
The Linguini Incident (1991)
![Bill Dow](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/363/162363121_fc7f4e.jpg)
Bill Dow
Best movies:
The X Files: Biogenesis (1999) (video compilation)
This Boy's Life (1993)
Legends of the Fall (1994)
Zachary Ansley
Canada
Best movies:
The X Files: Requiem (2000) (video compilation)
Sleepers (1996)
This Boy's Life (1993)
![Frank Charles Turner](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/897/161897025_017520.jpg)
Frank Charles Turner
Canada
Best movies:
Unforgiven (1992)
This Boy's Life (1993)
Call of the Wild (1992) (TV movie)
![Dwight McFee](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/784/162784345_ca4ffd.jpg)
Dwight McFee
Best movies:
Little Criminals (1995) (TV movie)
This Boy's Life (1993)
Fire with Fire (1986)