Beautiful Boy: Intense Timothée Chalamet and Steve Carell chemistry shown in teaser trailer

The Big Short and Call Me By Your Name actors collide

Amazon Studios has teased new film Beautiful Boy ahead of its first full trailer, seeing Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet's father and son characters having a heart-wrenching argument in a cafe.

Both actors possess an enthralling humanity, so it will be exciting to see how they pair up, the teaser alone giving a glimpse of some intense chemistry.

"I'm attracted to craziness and you're just embarrassed because I was like this amazing thing, like your special creation or something, and you don't like who I am now," Chalamet says.

"Who are you, Nick?" Carell fumes, with Chalamet pleading: "This is me, dad, here, this is who I am."

Beautiful Boy is based on the memoir of the same name by David Sheff and Tweak by his son, Nic Sheff, both books chronicling Nic's methamphetamine addiction but from different perspectives. Amazon describes the film as showing "the heartbreaking and inspiring experience of survival and recovery in a family coping with addiction over many years."

The blurb for Sheff's book is as follows:

'David Sheff's story is a first: a teenager's addiction from the parent's point of view -- a real-time chronicle of the shocking descent into substance abuse and the gradual emergence into hope. Before meth, Sheff's son Nic was a varsity athlete, honor student, and award-winning journalist. After meth, he was a trembling wreck who stole money from his eight-year-old brother and lived on the streets. With haunting candour, Sheff traces the first subtle warning signs, the denial (by both child and parents), the three a.m. phone calls (is it Nic? the police? the hospital?), the attempts at rehab, and, at last, the way past addiction. He shows us that whatever an addict's fate, the rest of the family must care for one another too, lest they become addicted to addiction.'

Beautiful Boy, which was directed by Felix Van Groeningen, is expected to be in cinemas in autumn.