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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.
Drama 2018 115 mins
Director: Joel Edgerton
Overview
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.
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