Little Boy Blue (film) Little Boy Blue (film) Little Boy Blue is a 1997 film directed by Antonio Tibaldi about a dysfunctional Texas family. The father, Ray (John Savage) is a Vietnam War veteran who was left impotent from a war injury. His high school son Jimmy West (Ryan Phillippe) tries to protect his two younger brothers from their abusive father. There is a family secret that gets revealed. Living in the backwoods of Texas is the dysfunctional and apparently incestuous family: a psychotic war veteran father, Ray West, a compliant wife, Kate, and a 19-year-old son, Jimmy, who is relegated to a warehouse
Little Boy Blue (film) her and to say his final goodbye. She listens to his shocking story about Ray's abusive behavior, and is startled when Jimmy says that he cannot leave his own sons with such a Vietnam-traumatised monster. He leaves her house and goes back to his place. On his way he is stopped by Ray who takes advantage of the absence of Kate and the boys and tells Jimmy that he needs to know who he really is and why he keeps on calling Jimmy "Little boy blue". Figuring out where Ray is going, Jimmy wants to stop him, and a fight