在这部宝贝男孩剧情片中,12岁的Otis是一名在好莱坞冉冉升起的电视新星。当他的事业开始风生水起时，他曾扮过马戏小丑的父亲回到他身边，成为他的监护人。在片场之外的时间里，Otis与他的父亲一起住在一家位于城市边缘的汽车旅馆，忍受着傲慢霸道的父亲的虐待。《宝贝男孩》跟随着两条时间线，展现了一对父子之间充满争议的关系以及十年来两人试图修复心障的历程。
这是编剧/主演Shia LaBeouf与导演Alma Har'el的又一次令人惊叹的合作，描绘出了一幅痛苦却又给人以启迪的成长自画像。Shia LaBeouf的剧本深入潜进Otis的精神世界，挖掘出虐待给他留下的伤痕、令人不快的真相；而Alma贡献出了激动人心、个人风格强烈的导演技巧，同时也始终没有忘记影片温暖动人的内核。两位出色的年轻演员——Noah Jupe和Lucas Hedges——分别扮演两个不同年龄段的Otis，他们充满张力的表演塑造出了一个有力而质朴的角色，他的感情被愤怒和宽恕的渴望驱使着——这两种感情看似自相矛盾，却又真实共存。
From a screenplay by Shia LaBeouf, based on his own experiences, award-winning filmmaker Alma Har'el brings to life a young actor's stormy childhood and early adult years as he struggles to reconcile with his father through cinema and dreams. Fictionalizing his childhood's ascent to stardom, and subsequent adult crash-landing into rehab and recovery, Har'el casts Noah Jupe and Lucas Hedges as Otis Lort, navigating different stages in a frenetic career. LaBeouf takes on the daring and therapeutic challenge of playing a version of his own father, an ex-rodeo clown and a felon. Artist and musician FKA Twigs makes her feature-film debut, playing neighbor and kindred spirit to the younger Otis in their garden-court motel home. Har'el's feature narrative debut is a one-of-a-kind collaboration between filmmaker and subject, exploring art as medicine and imagination as hope.
如梦似幻却又直击人心的半自传影片。感同身受，缺少父爱的Otis和我。和自己和解。。《Indiewire》影评：行为艺术和电影。《宝贝男孩》：被父母毁了人生的孩子。
