Beau Is Afraid

Genre: Comedy

Worldwide gross$12.3M

With his mother's gloomy spectre looming over his entire life, grizzled outcast Beau has never made sense of his miserable existence. And perpetually baffled by reality and his conflicting urgent needs, the neurotic New Yorker gets a hearty slice of crippling anxiety and sheer paranoia when he sets foot in a strangely familiar war zone: his neighbourhood. But as the pill-popping hermit reluctantly embarks on a Sisyphean quest for answers, determined to reunite with his estranged mum at all costs, Beau must summon every last ounce of courage to confront everything that has kept him in the dark. To have a fighting chance of deciphering the sinister secrets that continue to rule his life, Beau must grapple with deep-seated phobias, deal with heavy guilt, and face the menacing parent. Because, in his case, love was a fiendish trap--the labyrinthine depths of maternal affection were only the means to an end. Now, the drugs don't work, and Beau is afraid. As the universe conspires against his conquest and the end draws near, will Beau be able to fight his inner demons for a change?

🏆 31 nominations total

Genres

Comedy, Drama, Horror

Director

Ari Aster

Cast

Joaquin Phoenix, Patti LuPone, Amy Ryan

Released

21 April 2023

Runtime

2h 59m

Certificate

R

IMDb rating

6.6 / 10

Votes

79,477

Metascore

63

Rotten Tomatoes

67%

Box office

$8,176,562

Budget

$35,000,000

Edition

Base