The Night in Question | Related Titles/Adaptations

Wolff's autobiographical account, This Boy's Life: A Memoir, was filmed in 1994, with Robert DeNiro in the part of Dwight, his stepfather, Ellen Barkin as his mother (called Caroline here) and eighteen-year-old Leonardo DiCaprio as young Toby Wolff. The film was directed competently by Michael Caton-Jones, perhaps best known for Memphis Belle (1990), and very effectively photographed by David Watkins who won an Academy Award for Out of Africa (1985) and who beautifully contrasts the striking landscape of the Pacific Northwest with the bleak lives of the characters....

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