This Boy's Life (1993) [ Blu-Ray, Reg.A/B/C Import - Australia ]

In the opening scene of this morally edifying screen version of Tobias Wolff's 1989 memoir, it is 1957 and Toby , a teenager, is traveling with his mother Caroline to Utah.

Their high hopes for a new life are shattered when her abusive lover shows up in Salt Lake City.

They flee again, this time to Seattle.

Caroline, who has a habit of settling for tyrannical men, does it again.

She married Dwight, an auto mechanic who lives with his three children in Concrete, a remote rural community.

Toby, who has changed his name to Jack after Jack London, is not impressed with his new stepfather.

He immediately senses the man's meanness after watching his mother beat him and all other competitors in a local turkey shoot.