It's always a self-indulgent exercise when the star of the film is also the writer and, even more so, when it's autobiographical. That said, LaBeouf does a commendable job portraying his abusive loser of a father. But the idea that Shia had any more of a difficult childhood growing up in Hollywood than the tens of millions of children who grow up in abject poverty in war-torn third world nations is pretty aburd, at best. Daddy issues aren't always a sweet memory.
Review of Honey Boy
