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An A-list cast help About A Boy director Paul Weitz take a more serious look at the father-son dynamic in this adaptation of Nick Flynn's offbeat memoir Another Bulls**t Night in Suck City. Paul Dano plays Nick, a young writer living in the psychological shadow of his suicidal mother (Julianne Moore) and largely absent father, Jonathan (Robert De Niro). So when Jonathan suddenly reappears in Nick's life, it gives both the chance to break the family cycle of addiction and unfulfilled dreams.

An A-list cast help About A Boy director Paul Weitz take a more serious look at the father-son dynamic in this adaptation of Nick Flynn's offbeat memoir Another Bulls**t Night in Suck City. Paul Dano plays Nick, a young writer living in the psychological shadow of his suicidal mother (Julianne Moore) and largely absent father, Jonathan (Robert De Niro). So when Jonathan suddenly reappears in Nick's life, it gives both the chance to break the family cycle of addiction and unfulfilled dreams.

Songs Only You Know: A Memoir plunges us into the Detroit hardcore punk scene with eighteen-year-old Sean and spans a dark decade during which his father succumbs to crack addiction, his younger sister spirals into a fatal depression, and his sense of home crumbles. Sean's salvation is music, and the many eccentrics and outsiders he befriends as frontman of a band once referred to by Spin Magazine as "an art-core mindfuck." Sean's prose whips from mordantly funny to searingly honest while offering an unflinching look at a family in crisis, low-rent music subculture, and the hard-earned identity of its author. A story of young manhood that deserves a place alongside Tobias Wolff’s In Pharaoh’s Army and Nick Flynn’s Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, Songs Only You Know is a beautiful...