While the incidents and other similar outrages are still reverberating across the USA, Beautiful Boy seeks to look at the killings from the point of view of the shooter’s parents.
Sheen, who has also attracted younger fans through roles in vampire franchises such as Underworld and Twilight, plays “tight-buttoned” businessman Bill.
Rex Read, film critic of the New York Observer, said: “Beautiful Boy is too bleak and wrenching to recommend unconditionally. You need a strong constitution to watch it soberly, but it is a gripping experience that left me weak at the knees.”
And he was full of praise for Sheen and Bello’s acting.
He said: “In two of the most devastating performances of the year, versatile Michael Sheen and tough, uncompromising Maria Bello are parents in a marriage that is already hanging on a frayed string when their 18-year-old son shocks the nation and becomes front-page fodder in a shark-feeding press frenzy.
“Mr Sheen has a flawless American accent and a bottomless reserve of emotions as the father, while the earthy Ms Bello is his rocky wife coming apart at the seams.”
Stephen Holden, of the New York Times, said: “The film’s great strengths are the performances of Ms Bello and Mr Sheen, playing a couple whose long-bottled emotions are blasted open by the tragedy.”
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