Ken Park

Movie · 6.0 / 10 · 30 Jan 2003 · English

Teen skater Ken Park (nicknamed Krap Nek; his name spelled and pronounced backward) kills himself at a Visalia skate park; his death bookends the lives of four other young people who knew him: Shawn, the most conventional; Tate brims with psychotic rage; Claude is habitually harassed by his brutish father and coddled, rather uncomfortably, by his enormously pregnant mother; and Peaches looks after her devoutly religious father, but yearns for freedom. They're all rather tight, or so they claim.

Beautiful Boy

Movie · 7.6 / 10 · 12 Oct 2018 · English

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.

Palmer

Movie · 8.1 / 10 · 28 Jan 2021 · English

After 12 years in prison, former high school football star Eddie Palmer returns home to put his life back together—and forms an unlikely bond with Sam, an outcast boy from a troubled home. But Eddie's past threatens to ruin his new life and family.

Marriage Story

Movie · 7.7 / 10 · 28 Sept 2019 · English

A stage director and an actress struggle through a grueling, coast-to-coast divorce that pushes them to their personal extremes.

The Etruscan Smile

Movie · 6.3 / 10 · 12 Apr 2018 · English

Rory MacNeil, a rugged old Scotsman, reluctantly leaves his beloved isolated Hebridean island and travels to San Francisco to seek medical treatment. Moving in with his estranged son, Rory sees his life transformed through a newly found bond with his baby grandson.

Maps to the Stars

Movie · 6.2 / 10 · 21 May 2014 · English

Driven by an intense need for fame and validation, members of a dysfunctional Hollywood family chase celebrity, one another, and the relentless ghosts of their pasts. Their fragile ecosystem is disrupted by the arrival of Agatha, the scarred and estranged pyromaniac daughter.

Snitch

Movie · 6.1 / 10 · 21 Feb 2013 · English

Construction company owner John Matthews learns that his estranged son, Jason, has been arrested for drug trafficking. Facing an unjust prison sentence for a first time offender courtesy of mandatory minimum sentence laws, Jason has nothing to offer for leniency in good conscience. Desperately, John convinces the DEA and the opportunistic DA Joanne Keeghan to let him go undercover to help make arrests big enough to free his son in return. With the unwitting help of an ex-con employee, John enters the narcotics underworld where every move could be his last in an operation that will demand all his resources, wits and courage to survive.

Alex of Venice

Movie · 5.9 / 10 · 17 Apr 2015 · English

After her stay-at-home husband leaves her, a workaholic lawyer finds that she is not completely up to the tasks of caring for her young son, ailing father and household all by herself.

This Boy's Life

Movie · 7.1 / 10 · 9 Apr 1993 · English

When a son and mother move to Seattle in hopes for a better life, the mother meets a seemingly polite man. Things go south when the man turns out to be abusive, endangering their lives. As the mother struggles to maintain hope in an impossible situation, the son has plans to escape.

Beautiful Boy

Movie · 6.0 / 10 · 3 Jun 2011 · English

A married couple on the verge of separation are leveled by the news their 18-year-old son committed a mass-shooting at his college, then took his own life.

Strange Weather

Movie · 5.8 / 10 · 12 Sept 2016 · English

Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea.

The Florida Project

Movie · 7.4 / 10 · 6 Oct 2017 · English

The story of a precocious six year-old and her ragtag group of friends whose summer break is filled with childhood wonder, possibility and a sense of adventure while the adults around them struggle with hard times.