
Beautiful Boy(2018)
After he and his first wife separate, journalist David Sheff struggles to help their teenage son, who goes from experimenting with drugs to becoming devastatingly addicted to methamphetamine.


“I'm fine.”
A young drug-addled writer approaching the bottom of his descent submits to two months of agonizing detox at a treatment center in Minnesota.

Aaron Taylor-Johnson
James Frey

Billy Bob Thornton
Leonard

Odessa Young
Lilly

Giovanni Ribisi
John

Juliette Lewis
Joanne

Dash Mihok
Lincoln

Charles Parnell
Miles

Ryan Hurst
Hank

David Dastmalchian
Roy

Tom Amandes
Dr. Baker
A Million Little Pieces is a drama film released in 2019 exploring themes of based on novel or book, drug addiction, rehabilitation, male homosexuality, drug rehabilitation, based on memoir or autobiography. Directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson, it stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Billy Bob Thornton, Odessa Young. A young drug-addled writer approaching the bottom of his descent submits to two months of agonizing detox at a treatment center in Minnesota.
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