The Boy PG-13

Every child needs to feel loved.
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DVD Details

  • Rated: PG-13
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 38 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: May 10, 2016
  • Originally Released: 2018
  • Label: Universal Studios

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 578
While the score goes out of its way to make his every action feel sinister, the picture doesn't fulfill its horrific potential until the third act. Full Review
Village Voice
Aug 12, 2015
Rating: 3/5 -- It succeeds in conveying the dark edge of an effective thriller, but it lacks the human sentiment -- the poignancy, the devastation -- that would've made it soar above less heady genre fare.
About.com
Sep 16, 2015
Rating: 3.5/5 -- A thoughtful story that is as touching as it is unnerving, The Boy is an unflinching & powerfully poetic examination of the human psyche that never passes judgment on its titular character, even after he's unleashed his inner lunatic on the world. Full Review
Daily Dead
Jan 7, 2016
A 9-year-old sociopath stubbornly fails to become scary in this stillborn thriller. Full Review
Variety
Aug 10, 2015
Not since Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer has a movie gotten inside the head of a killer with such cold-blooded artistry. Full Review
Birth.Movies.Death.
Sep 1, 2015
While it's admirable that director Macneill and his co-scripter Clay McLeod Chapman opted to emphasize mood and psychology over the story's more exploitable elements, it nonetheless results in a listless tedium. Full Review
Hollywood Reporter
Aug 10, 2015
Mr. Macneill and his co-screenwriter, Clay McLeod Chapman, have developed a feature stunning to behold if somewhat unpersuasive in narrative. Full Review
New York Times
Aug 20, 2015

Product Description:

Greta (Lauren Cohan) takes a job as a nanny for a young boy in an English village. Upon her arrival, she discovers that the child is actually a life-size doll that the parents have been using as a coping mechanism since the death of their eight-year-old son two decades earlier. After the initial shock wears off, Greta decides to stay and work for the couple, but when she breaks a few strictly enforced rules of their "son's" care, she begins to suspect the toy may not be a doll at all. Directed by William Brent Bell. Rupert Evans, Jim Norton, Diana Hardcastle, Ben Robson, and James Russell co-star.

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  • Sales Rank: 41,002
  • UPC: 025192346798
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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