Beautiful Boy

Beautiful Boy (2011) is a quiet, devastating drama from director Shawn Ku that you can watch online on iFILM. Bill and Kate are already drifting toward divorce when a single phone call ends the life they knew.

Their eighteen-year-old son has opened fire at his college, killed classmates, then turned the gun on himself. Overnight the couple are victims, suspects and pariahs all at once — reporters lay siege to the house, relatives pull away, and they end up hiding in a roadside motel just to breathe. Alone together, they keep circling the one question with no answer: what did we miss? Maria Bello and Michael Sheen play the grief in low, unsparing registers, never reaching for easy tears.

Ku's first feature isn't really about the shooting; it's about the marriage that has to survive it. This is a hard, honest film for anyone ready to sit with guilt and love that offer no neat comfort. Stream Beautiful Boy online on iFILM.