The Unbreakable Boy Movie Review

A young boy with both a rare brittle-bone disease and autism. He is a happy kid who loves everyone. Every day is a great day for him. He is always happy and wants to make everyone around him happy.  He is joyous, funny, life-affirming world view that transforms and unites everyone around him. Just about all his classmates love him at school and Austin sees everyone at school as his friend. The class bully he considers his best friend. Logan his brother dislikes how he belittles his brother. Austin sees his bully as a sad person and wants to make him happy.

Austin was also born with osteogenesis imperfecta, or known as brittle-bone disease. He is no stranger to broken bones and has had a lot of broken bones.  

Scott the father has his own way of handling his son. Alcohol is a close friend and an imaginary friend that he talks to. It seems that every time Scott is in charge of watching Austin, he ends up in an emergency room with another broken bone. Scott loses his job. Everything spirals out of control like the mounting medical bills and Austins huge meltdown. The mom Theresa, is the family glue with her love for her family and faith.

Having a daughter with Autism and other medical issues this movie spoke loudly to me. I looked over other reviews and seen some critical ones but if you haven’t been in the shoes of a parent or a family with a child with autism it’s hard to relate. I feel that those reviews looked at the movie from the outside looking in. The movie is heartfelt and honest with all the joys, frustrations, and day to day life of a parent and family with a challenging child. I chuckled and teared up many times because I could relate to the many different aspects of the movies.  

Buy tickets today to see The Unbreakable Boy in theaters starting February 21!

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 Disclosure: I received this complimentary product in exchange for my honest thoughts.