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This Boy’s Life (1993)
A successful child actor with extensive TV credits and small roles in the Gremlins knockoff Critters 3 and Poison Ivy on his résumé, DiCaprio got his big-screen break playing an abused adolescent in this adaptation of Tobias Wolff’s bittersweet memoir. In his first major feature, the baby-faced 19-year-old held his own in a series of intense scenes with Robert De Niro, who played Wolff’s vicious stepfather. Talk about not acting your age.
This Boy's Life, Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, 1993. Photo courtesy of the Everett Collection.
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