Boy Erased

Joel Edgerton directs this piercing drama about a young man enrolled in a gay conversion therapy program, based on the heartbreaking memoir by Garrard Conley.

Based on Garrard Conley’s memoir, Boy Erased tells the story of Jared (Lucas Hedges, Manchester by the Sea), the son of a Baptist minister in a conservative American town, who is outed as gay to his family at the age of 19. Jared’s parents (Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe) force him to attend a gay conversion therapy program or else he will be forever shunned by his family and friends and exiled from his church. The coming-of-age drama is written and directed by Joel Edgerton, star of Loving and It Comes at Night.