Shia LaBeouf: 25 best films from the actor’s filmography

How many actors can boast of an adaptation of their own fate? But Shia Syed Labaf, an American actor born in 1986, made this project, and for good reason. This man’s fate is a gripping drama with the pressures of a drinking father, a reluctant mother, mental problems, anger and alcohol (the movie “Sweet Boy”). Even the fact that he chose an acting career was dictated by a desire to support his poor family, not by dreams of fame.

Despite his many problems, Shaya has persevered through his vices and injuries as a successful actor, director, performer, and performance artist. Here is a short list of the best movies with Shia LaBeouf, a man who knows how to make good movies and knows what the hardships of life are.

Padre Pio

• Rating IMDB – 6.5
• Genre: Drama, Biography, History
• Germany, Italy, UK, USA production / 2022
• Directed by Abel Ferrara
• Cast: Shia LaBeouf, Christina Chiriac, Marco Leonardi, Salvatore Ruocco, Asia Argento, Vincenzo Crea, Luca Lionello, Brando Pacitto, Stella Mastrantonio, Federico Maiorana

Francesco Forgione, aka St. Pio, is an iconic figure in the Catholic Church. He was canonized in 2002, and several films and series are dedicated to his fate. «The Young Pope», with a bearded Shia Labaf as Pio, is one such film, a stark, theatrical stylization.

The events do not concern Pio’s later years, recounting Pio’s personal suffering and spiritual agony in the years following World War I. He observes the aftermath of the war and is tormented by his non-interference and guilt for all the sins of the world.

Abel Ferrara was advised to invite Shia Labaf to the role of Pio by actor Willem Dafoe, with whom the director is on friendly terms.

Pieces of a Woman

• Rating IMDB – 7.0
• Genre: Drama
• Canada, Hungary, USA production / 2020
• Directed by Cornel Mundrutso
• Cast: Vanessa Kirby, Shia LaBeouf, Ellen Burstyn, Eliza Schlesinger, Benny Safdie, Sarah Snook, Molly Parker, Stephen McCarthy, Tyrone Benskin, Frank Scorpio

Despite the creepy literal translation of the title, this is not a dismemberment horror film at all, but a quite ordinary drama about a mother who has lost her child. The film opens with a half-hour scene of a difficult home delivery, after which the baby dies.

Martha and Sean (Shia Labaf) had been looking forward to their firstborn, and are now heartbroken. Sean is trying to figure out what went wrong, but Martha doesn’t care, she’s just grieving. The couple’s relationship is deteriorating, with the trial of midwife Eva taking place very soon. Martha’s overbearing mother blames her daughter for the baby’s death, and Sean begins an affair with another woman and gets hooked on cocaine…

The performer of the role of Martha, actress Vanessa Kirby, was nominated for an Oscar for this role.

Beautiful Boy

• Rating IMDB – 7.2
• Genre: Drama
• USA production / 2019
• Worldwide gross: $3 400 977
• Directed by Alma Harel
• Cast: Shia LaBeouf, Lucas Hedges, Noah Jupe, Byron Bowers, Laura San Giacomo, Natasha Lyonne, Micah Monroe, Clifton Collins Jr.

An amazing revelation film for actor Shia Labaf, who, while in rehab, wrote the script himself based on his fate and relationship with his own father, whom, by the way, he played in the film.

The film’s protagonist is Otis, an alcoholic popular film actor. After getting into an accident and fighting with a policeman, Otis finds himself in a clinic where the doctor offers him effective therapy. The actor recalls his childhood and his relationship with his drunken father James, a rodeo clown who tried to control his son tightly even when he became a star.

Prior to the making of this film, actor Labaf had not spoken to his father for seven years. The picture became a kind of therapy for the Labaf family.

The Peanut Butter Falcon

• Rating IMDB – 7.6
• Genre: Drama, comedy, adventure
• USA production / 2019
• Budget: $6 200 000
• Worldwide gross: $23 712 090
• Directed by Tyler Nielson, Mike Schwartz
• Cast: Shaya LaBaff, Zach Gottsagen, Dakota Johnson, John Hawkes, Bruce Dern, John Bernthal, Thomas Hayden Church, Mick Foley, Jake Roberts

A nice independent tragicomedy, similar in some ways to Rain Man. Shia LaBeouf plays Tyler, a local crook who steals other people’s catch. One day he escapes from angry fishermen on an old boat and finds Zach in it.

Zack is a 22-year-old boy with Down syndrome who dreams of becoming a wrestler. He escapes from the local orphanage, hoping to make it to his idol’s school, Salty Redneck. Zach and Tyler head off into the unknown together, towards their dreams and adventures. Following in their footsteps is social worker Evelyn, searching for Zach, and a pair of fishermen obsessed with revenge against Tyler.

This film is the debut of directors and screenwriters Tyler Neilson and Mike Schwartz and made the list of the top ten independent films of 2019.

Borg McEnroe

• Rating IMDB – 6.9
• Genre: Drama, biography, sports
• Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Czech Republic production / 2017
• Budget: SEK 65,000,000
• Worldwide gross: $3 430 165
• Directed by Janus Metz
• Cast: Sverrir Gudnason, Shia LaBaaf, Stellan Skarsgard, Tuva Novotny, Leo Borg, Markus Mossberg, Jackson Gann, Scott Arthur, Ian Blackman, Robert Emms

An excellent Swedish tennis biographical film starring Shia LaBeouf as the famous American athlete John McEnroe. The apotheosis of the narrative is the magnificent match between McEnroe and the Swedish tennis player Bjorn Borg at Wimbledon in 1980.

As the “number one” in world tennis, Borg is under a lot of pressure, which affects his relationship with his wife Mariana. The film tells a bit about Borg’s athletic and personal life, and then turns to preparations for Wimbledon, in which McEnroe plans to win his first championship title. After this brilliant battle, the two men become lifelong friends.

Shia LaBeouf, an ardent McEnroe fan, really wanted to play the role, and admitted he cried when he first read the script.

American Honey

• Rating IMDB – 7.0
• Genre: Drama, melodrama, adventure
• UK, USA production / 2016
• Worldwide gross: $2 290 649
• Directed by Andrea Arnold
• Cast: Sasha Lane, Shia LaBeouf, Riley Keough, McCall Lombardi, Ariel Holmes, Crystal Ice, Veronica Ezell, Chad Cox, Harry Howell, Kenneth Corey Tucker

A cute teen road movie, written and directed by Brit Andrea Arnold. Shia LaBeouf played the love interest of the protagonist and seasoned traveler Jake.

This is the story of Star, a charming young American woman from Oklahoma. Tired of the drabness of everyday life, she escapes with the likes of Millennials who travel the states in a big white van in search of casual earnings, entertainment and new experiences, selling magazines, falling in love and exploring their destiny.

The film won the jury prize at the Cannes Film Festival and was later nominated for a BAFTA.

Man Down

• Rating IMDB – 5.9
• Genre: Thriller, Drama, War
• USA production / 2016
• Worldwide gross: $167 085
• Directed by Dito Montiel
• Cast: Shia LaBeouf, Jai Courtney, Gary Oldman, Kate Mara, Tory Kittles, Clifton Collins Jr, Charlie Shawtell, Jose Pablo Cantillo, Justin Smith, Paul Sado

A hard-hitting anti-war film about those returning from a war that never leaves its adherents alone, robbing them of their sanity and normal lives. Shia Labaf plays the role of Marine Gabriel Drummer, who returns home after a devastating war in Afghanistan.

He finds America devastated and his town completely destroyed. His wife Natalie and son Jonathan are missing. Together with his comrade-in-arms, Devin, who just recently died in the war in front of Gabriel, he begins a search for his relatives, taking the madness around him as the norm.

Shia LaBeouf admitted that he did contemplate suicide after getting into the role of a Marine with PTSD.

Fury

• Rating IMDB – 7.5
• Genre: Action, Drama, War
• USA, China, UK production / 2014
• Budget: $68 000 000
• Worldwide gross: $211 817 906
• Directed by David Eyre
• Cast: Brad Pitt, Logan Lerman, Shia LaBeouf, Michael Peña, Jon Bernthal, Jason Isaacs, Jim Parrack, Brad William Henke, Kevin Vance, Zavier Samuel

A war movie starring Brad Pitt and Shia LaBeouf recounting the events of the end of World War II. The story centers on the American Sherman tank crew, whose leader, Don Collier (Pitt), assumes command of a tank company after the death of its commander. Shia LaBeouf plays the role of Technician Boyd.

The events take place on the Western Front in April of 1945. Still well-armed, but already doomed fascists resist the attacking Allied troops with the last forces, and Collier boldly throws his tank into the last victorious battle.

The only surviving World War II Tiger tank in London was used for the tank fight scene, and the clothing was collected from collectors.

It is one of the best tank films ever made.

The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman

• Rating IMDB – 6.3
• Genre: Thriller, crime, action, drama, melodrama, comedy
• USA, Romania production / 2013
• Worldwide gross: $443 990
• Directed by Fredrik Bond
• Cast: Shia LaBeouf, Evan Rachel Wood, Mads Mikkelsen, Til Schweiger, Rupert Grint, James Buckley, Ion Caramitru, Vincent D’Onofrio, Melissa Leo, Andrew Finty

A gripping suspense film at the crossroads of thriller, detective, melodrama and action, starring Shia LaBeouf as the protagonist, the gutless young man Charlie Countryman, who escapes into the drug craze from the boredom of a gray existence.

One day the spirit of his mother appears to him and advises him to go to Bucharest, which Charlie does. On the road, he meets Victor, a Romanian who is flying in to see his daughter and bringing her a gift. After a heart-to-heart talk, the men fall asleep, and in the morning Charlie discovers that his traveling companion died in his sleep.

Now Victor’s spirit appears to the protagonist and asks him to find his daughter in order to give her the present. This is the beginning of a bright adventure for Charlie, who seems to forget what boredom means forever.

The first version of the film was severely criticized. Later, after serious corrections, the movie was released on the wide screen and became a cult classic among the fans of Shia Labaf.

Nymphomaniac

• Rating IMDB – 6.9
• Genre: Drama
• Denmark, Germany, France, Belgium production / 2013
• Worldwide gross: $13 545 832
• Directed by Lars von Trier
• Cast: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stacy Martin, Stellan Skarsgard, Shia LaBaaf, Christian Slater, Uma Thurman, Sophie Kennedy Clarke, Jens Albinus, Nicholas Brault, Felicity Gilbert

An impressive erotic drama from the eccentric Danish Lars Von Trier, in which Shia Labaf appears as young Jerome, the only lover of the main character, nymphomaniac Jo.

The film begins with Seligman, an elderly, intelligent man who finds a woman beaten half to death in an alleyway and takes her to his house to help her. The stranger gradually regains consciousness, gives her name, Joe, and tells her savior her fate. Seligman finds many analogies to the classics he has read in this prolonged drama.

Labaf said that Von Trier asked for a photo of his penis to determine if he was relaxed enough for his role.

Lawless

• Rating IMDB – 7.2
• Genre: Drama, Crime, Biography
• USA production / 2012
• Budget: $26 000 000
• Worldwide gross: $55 404 159
• Directed by John Hillcoat
• Cast: Shia LaBeouf, Tom Hardy, Jason Clarke, Jessica Chastain, Guy Pearce, Mia Wasikowska, Dane DeHaan, Gary Oldman, Chris McGarry, Lew Temple

An energetic and impressive crime film starring Tom Hardy, Jason Clarke and Shia LaBeouf as the three Bondurant brothers, underground moonshiners who set up a successful criminal business during the Prohibition era of the 1930s.

The bootleggers are surrounded by many dangers from all sides – from the unexpected love infatuation of the younger brother Jack (Labaf) to the enemies of the family, in the person of the local corrupt cops. However, the brothers have a lot of authority in the neighborhood and manage to get out of all the trouble.

Shia LaBeouf was too keen on moonshine on the set «to get into character», which led to a quarrel with Tom Hardy, who didn’t drink a drop.

The Company You Keep

• Rating IMDB – 6.4
• Genre: Thriller, Drama
• USA, Canada production / 2012
• Budget: $2 000 000
• Worldwide gross: $20 014 680
• Directed by Robert Redford
• Cast: Robert Redford, Shia LaBeouf, Julie Christie, Terrence Howard, Brendan Gleeson, Brit Marling, Jackie Ivanko, Stanley Tucci, Anna Kendrick, Nick Nolte

A gripping thriller about an elderly radical on the run, starring Shia LaBeouf as young weasel journalist Ben Sheppard. One day, in his quest for scoop, Ben comes across Jim Grant, an older lawyer who was once an activist for the terrorist organization Weathermen and went by the name of Nick Sloan, wanted for a bank robbery.

Realizing he has been exposed, Grant goes on the run, determined to find his longtime lover Mimi, who can prove his innocence in that old case.

Director Robert Redford played Grant himself, and to promote the film he appeared with Shia LaBeouf on The New York Times live.

Transformers franchise

• Rating IMDB – 7.0
• Genre: Sci-fi, action movie
• USA production / 2007
• Budget: $150 000 000
• Worldwide gross: $709 709 780
• Directed by Michael Bay
• Cast: Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, John Turturro, Rachel Taylor, Anthony Anderson, Jon Voight, Kevin Dunn, Julie White

«Transformers» is the undisputed acting success of a young Shia LaBeouf, playing the role of Sam Whitwick, owner of a map showing the location of the Great Spark, the source of life for the Cybertronians.

The artifact was inherited from the guy’s great-grandfather, the explorer Archibald, and now Sam is being sought by both factions of Transformers: both the evil Decepticons and their more peaceful adversaries the Autobots. One day Sam buys an old Chevy, unaware that beneath the unsightly exterior of the car lurks his exciting future and best friend, Autobot Bumblebee.

This project for Shia LaBeouf is the highest-grossing project to date.

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

• Rating IMDB – 6.2
• Genre: Drama, melodrama
• USA production / 2010
• Budget: $70 000 000
• Worldwide gross: $134 748 021
• Directed by Oliver Stone
• Cast: Michael Douglas, Shia LaBeouf, Josh Brolin, Cary Mulligan, Frank Langella, Vanessa Ferlito, Thomas Belesis, Eli Wallach, Susan Sarandon, Richard Stratton

The sequel to «Wall Street» is a movie about big money and people who live only by finance. Shia LaBeouf made his mark here as the lover of Gordon Gekko’s daughter, young talented trader Jacob Moore, who makes a deal with Gekko himself.

So, 23 years have passed since the end of the events of the first film. Gordon Gekko goes out on a limb and begins writing a book about future financial crises. True, no one believes this, including Jacob Moore. On the contrary, he expects prosperity. Soon, however, Gekko’s grim prophecies come true, and Jacob becomes a loyal associate in the far-reaching plans of the greedy villain Gordon.

Shia LaBeouf, preparing for the role, worked with traders and even got a broker’s license, at the same time doubling the money invested in financial games.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

• Rating IMDB – 6.2
• Genre: Sci-fi, action, thriller, adventure
• USA production / 2008
• Budget: $185 000 000
• Worldwide gross: $786 636 033
• Directed by Steven Spielberg
• Cast: Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, Karen Allen, Shia LaBeouf, Ray Winston, John Hurt, Jim Broadbent, Igor Zhizhikin, Dmitri Diachenko, Ilya Volokh

In the next adventure epic of this franchise, Shia LaBeouf played the role of Matt Williams, the son of Indiana Jones. The story is set in 1957, 21 years after the events of the first film.

The meeting between Matt Williams and Indiana Jones was unexpected for the latter. Pursued by the FBI, Indiana agrees to travel with Matt to Peru in search of an old friend, Harold Oxley. This journey leads both men to the most unexpected discoveries and mystical finds.

Shia LaBeouf openly criticized the film in the press, which led to its exclusion from the franchise later on.

Eagle Eye

• Rating IMDB – 6.6
• Genre: Sci-fi, action, thriller, detective
• Germany, USA production / 2008
• Budget: $80 000 000
• Worldwide gross: $178 066 569
• Directed by D.J. Caruso
• Cast: Shia LaBeouf, Michelle Monahan, Billy Bob Thornton, Rosario Dawson, Michael Chiklis, Anthony Mackie, Ethan Embry, Anthony Azizi, Cameron Boyce, Lynn Cohen

In this sci-fi action movie, Shia LaBeouf plays Jerry Shaw, a bum who receives an unexpected inheritance from his dead brother. He spends the money recklessly until he gets into trouble, out of which he is pulled by a stranger on the phone, who then demands to do her bidding.

Along with this, single mother Rachel becomes the victim of telephone blackmail by the same stranger. Anxious for her son’s life, she agrees to the terms of the woman’s voice on the phone. She meets Jerry and the two of them decide to find out who is behind the mysterious voice.

To evoke genuine sadness during the funeral scene, Shia LaBeouf listened to the song «Over The Rainbow» performed by Judy Garland. He says the song makes him cry.

Disturbia

• Rating IMDB – 6.8
• Genre: Thriller, drama, crime, detective
• USA production / 2007
• Budget: $20 000 000
• Worldwide gross: $117 760 134
• Directed by D.J. Caruso
• Cast: Shia LaBeouf, Sarah Remer, Carrie-Anne Moss, David Morse, Aaron Yu, Jose Pablo Cantillo, Matt Craven, Viola Davis, Brandon Caruso, Luciano Rauso

A gripping thriller starring Shia LaBeouf. His character is teenager Cale, shocked by the recent death of his father and placed under house arrest for fighting with his teacher.

In reclusion, the bored boy entertains himself as best he can. When his mother takes away his set-top box and television, Cale begins to spy on his neighbors, which leads him to meet a cute girl and to suspect that his neighbor Turner is a homicidal maniac.

The film is based on the Hitchcockian thriller Window to the Yard. Labaf, by the way, prepared for filming by seeking out teenage survivors of house arrest and talking to them.

Bobby

• Rating IMDB – 7.0
• Genre: Drama, Biography, History
• USA production / 2006
• Budget: $14 000 000
• Worldwide gross: $20 425 070
• Directed by Emilio Estevez
• Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Shia LaBeouf, Brian Geraty, William H. Macy, Christian Slater, Demi Moore, Sharon Stone, Freddie Rodriguez, Lindsay Lohan, Elijah Wood

A great ensemble cast in the drama about the assassination of Senator Kennedy, with Shia LaBeouf playing the small role of Cooper’s eyewitness who suffered from the brutality of Sirhan, the man first accused of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy.

The film recreates the era of those years when America pinned its hopes on a young politician nicknamed “Bobby.” Events unfold at the Ambassador Hotel in the last hours before the assassination. Many characters, ordinary life and an atmosphere of expectation of change for the better, which is replaced by fear after this heinous crime.

The film uses real chronicles of those years.

A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints

• Rating IMDB – 6.9
• Genre: Drama, Crime
• USA production / 2006
• Worldwide gross: $1 621 466
• Directed by Dito Montiel
• Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Shia LaBeouf, Channing Tatum, Chazz Palminteri, Dianne Wiest, Melonie Diaz, Peter Anthony Tambakis, Adam Scarimbolo, Martin Compton, Rosario Dawson

The events of this social drama move between the present day and the year 1986. Adult and successful Dito (Robert Downey Jr.) is forced to return to his father’s house in a dysfunctional neighborhood of New York due to the serious illness of his father, whom he has not seen for many years.

Dito recalls his youth in the ’80s (the young hero is played by Shia LaBeouf). He grew up on the street, surrounded by drugs and crime, with an abusive father and in poverty. He was protected only by Antonio, a violent teenager who once killed a man and went to jail.

After that, Dito left for California. Now he tries to figure out who helped him, a boy doomed to gangsterism, poverty, and possibly death, break free from the vicious cycle of brutality of his home neighborhood.

The film is based on the memoirs of musician and writer Dito Montiel.

The Greatest Game Ever Played

• Rating IMDB – 7.4
• Genre: Drama, Biography, Sports
• USA, Canada production / 2005
• Worldwide gross: $15 379 342
• Directed by Bill Paxton
• Cast: Shia LaBeouf, Marnie McPyle, Stephen Dillane, Josh Flitter, Peter Firth, Peyton List, Elias Koteas, Len Cariou, Stephen Marcus, James Paxton

Another breakthrough role for Shia Labaf, who played the famous golfer Francis Ouimet in this uplifting sports drama. The film focuses on the young years of the champion.

At the very beginning of the 20th century, Francis, who comes from a poor immigrant family, falls in love with golf and takes a job as a caddie at the local club. The boy’s father is vehemently opposed to this “rich man’s folly,” but the boy trains hard, not giving up on his dream. Francis fails to qualify and puts golf out of his mind, much to his father’s delight. However, fate gives the talented athlete another chance.

Scenes of the film were shot at the Kanawakee Golf Club in Quebec, and it was repainted and remodeled for that purpose. The owners liked it so much that they kept the changes.

Constantine

• Rating IMDB – 7.0
• Genre: Fantasy, horror, action, detective
• USA, Germany production / 2005
• Budget: $100 000 000
• Worldwide gross: $230 884 728
• Directed by Francis Lawrence
• Cast: Keanu Reeves, Rachel Weisz, Shia LaBeouf, Djimon Hounsou, Max Baker, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Gavin Rossdale, Tilda Swinton, Peter Stormare, Jesse Ramirez

«I’m Chaz Kramer, you bastard!» Remember the scene at the beginning of the mystical superhero movie Lord of Darkness? That’s the guy in the cap, assistant exorcist John Constantine, played by Shia LaBeouf in his first small but bright adult role, which significantly boosted his career.

Constantine (Keanu Reeves) is an experienced exorcist who has gained the ability to see and exorcise demons after a clinical death. He discovers a conspiracy of half-breeds and demons who dream of giving the Earth to Lucifer’s son and bringing about the apocalypse for mankind.

 A sequel to the best exorcism movie was announced in 2022.

Сражения солдата Келли

• Rating IMDB – 6.0
• Genre: Drama, melodrama, comedy
• USA production / 2003
• Budget: $1 000 000
• Directed by Ephram Potell, Kyle Rankin
• Cast: Shia LaBeouf, Elden Henson, Amy Smart, Billy Kay, Kathleen Quinlan, Shiri Appleby, William Sadler, Ray Wise, Philip Carner, Anson Mount

A teen drama starring Shia Labaf as Kelly Ernswiller, a historical military reenactment enthusiast. Kelly works in a store, enjoys hanging out with his parents and always plays on the winning side of his productions.

Except things aren’t going so smoothly in his personal life. He has a crush on Sarah, an obsessive coworker girl, he himself has eyes for Tabby, his friend Bobby’s older sister, and his worst enemy, street hooligan Lance, won’t give Kelly a pass. He has to fight his own problems as bravely as he does on the fields of his own reenactments.

For this film, Shia LaBeouf learned to drive and took German lessons.

Holes

• Rating IMDB – 7.0
• Genre: Drama, comedy, detective, adventure, family
• USA production / 2003
• Budget: $20 000 000
• Worldwide gross: $71 406 573
• Directed by Andrew Davies
• Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Jon Voight, Patricia Arquette, Shia LaBeouf, Tim Blake Nelson, Henry Winkler, Rick Fox, Ken Davitian, Erta Kitt, Hleo Thomas

The vivid summer adventures of teenagers, a movie starring Sigourney Weaver and Shia LaBeouf, tells the story of a search for an old treasure. Stanley Ilnets IV (Labaf) finds himself in a children’s reform camp, where strict principal Walker (Weaver) forces the children to dig endless holes as labor therapy.

In fact, this lady is trying to find the buried treasure of the legendary outlaw Kate, who operated in these parts during the Wild West. But only with Stanley’s arrival does the story of the treasure hunt find its continuation.

The father of the minor Shia Labaf constantly present on the set and pestered Sigourney Weaver, so she avoided in every way the young actor and his father.

Tru Confessions

• Rating IMDB – 7.4
• Genre: Drama, Comedy, Family
• USA, Canada production / 2002
• Directed by Paul Hohen
• Cast: Clara Bryant, Shia LaBeouf, Maire Winningham, William Francis McGuire, Nicole Dicker, Kevin Duhaney, Yani Gelman, Craig Eldridge, Jennifer Foster, Ranuma Pantucky

Disney family drama with a terrific performance by 14-year-old Shia Labaf, portraying the mentally challenged teenage boy Eddie, who is loved by his sister Trudy, the film’s protagonist.

Trudy is a typical teenage girl who despises her parents, is slightly ashamed of her troubled twin brother, and dreams of fame. When a local channel announces a contest for the best amateur project, Trudy decides to make a movie about her brother. This forces her to bond with her family, observe and learn. She begins to understand the importance of family and attention to loved ones and learns from her mistakes.

Critics praised the incredible artistic gift of the young Shaya, whose character is, in fact, the center of the story.

Breakfast with Einstein

• Rating IMDB – 3.6
• Genre: Comedy
• USA production / 1998
• Directed by Craig Shapiro
• Cast: Thomas Gottschalk, Priscilla Presley, Shia LaBeouf, Ben Foster, Lin Shaye, Jessica Bowman, Howard Morris, Ben Stein, Armelia McQueen, Tami Leah Logan

Einstein is a disaster dog, one of the most popular characters in dog movies of the ’90s. A very young Shia LaBeouf made his film debut as Joey, a boy grieving for his dead mother and one day finding a small abandoned puppy.

This dog is highly intelligent, but also loves to be rowdy and destructive, as all dogs do. In order not to part with his friend because of his family’s discontent, Joey decides to win a prize at an upcoming dog show. A cute, uncomplicated comedy for the whole family that will be fun to watch with the kids.

The actor Labaf here is only 11 years old.