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This Boy's Life

Year:

1993

Duration:

115 min

Genres:

Biography | Drama

IMDB rate:

7.3

Director:

Michael Caton-Jones

Awards:

4 wins

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1993-04-23

Filming Locations: Britannia Beach, British Columbia, Canada

Earnings

Gross: $4,104,962 (USA) Related Links

Cast

Actor

Character

Carla Gugino

Tobey Maguire

Robert De Niro

Dwight

Ellen Barkin

Caroline

Leonardo DiCaprio

Toby

Jonah Blechman

Arthur Gayle

Eliza Dushku

Pearl

Chris Cooper

Roy

Zachary Ansley

Skipper (as Zack Ansley)

Tracey Ellis

Kathy

Kathy Kinney

Marian

Robert Zameroski

Arch Cook (as Bobby Zameroski)

Tristan Tait

Jerry Huff

Travis MacDonald

Psycho

Richard Liss

A & P Manager

Michael Bacall

Terry Taylor

Adam Sneller

Terry Silver

Gerrit Graham

Mr. Howard

Thomas Kopache

Geiger Counter Vendor

Lee Wilkof

Principal Shippy

Sean Murray

Jimmy Voorhees

Jason Horst

Oscar Booker

Deanna Milligan

Silver Sister #1

Morgan Brayton

Silver Sister #2

Robert Munns

Ticket Seller

Bill Dow

Vice Principal

Shawn Macdonald

A & P Employee

Frank C. Turner

Truck Driver

John R. Taylor

Minister

Stephen E. Miller

Target Ranger

Dwight McFee

Voice in crowd (voice)

Ken Camroux

2nd Place Shooter

Ross Chaston

Score Caller

Scott Woodmansee

Crash Witness

Dennis Kostecki

Ticket Master (uncredited)

Marshall Dancing Elk Lucas

Cigar Store Owner (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

Tobey Maguire first auditioned for the part of Toby but director Michael Caton-Jones thought he wasn't right for the role. Leonardo DiCaprio, who is close friends with Maguire, still wanted him to be a part of the film so he got him the role of Toby's friend Chuck Bolger.

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Leonardo DiCaprio admitted that when filming the scene in which Toby finally defies Dwight, he screamed "Noooo!" at the top of his lungs, which cracked up the cast and crew.

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Both Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire later starred in films directed by Sam Raimi. Dicaprio in "The Quick and the Dead" and Maguire in the "Spider-Man" films.

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Goofs

Injured finger that's still bandaged months later in the timeline of the story.

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In the film, the children of Concrete go to high school in Chinook, as there is no high school in Concrete. In fact, Chinook is 268 miles away from Concrete, on the opposite end of the state.

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Speedometer on car reads the same when Dwight Hansen drives erratically to scare Tobias and then later on when Tobias takes Dwight's car for a joy ride; also the speedometer says speeds of 70 mph plus yet the odometer never moves.

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Quotes

Tobias 'Toby' Wolff: It was 1957. We were driving from Florida to Utah. After my mother was beaten up by her boyfriend, we got in the Nash and high-tailed it for the uranium fields. We were gonna get rich and change our luck, which hadn't been so hot since our family broke up five years back.

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Dwight Hansen: You don't know it yet, but me and Concrete are in your blood. We'll make a man of you yet. In years to come you'll thank me. You'll remember me... me and Concrete!

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Caroline Wolff Hansen: What did he do?

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