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The Miseducation of Cameron Post
Chloë Grace Moretz is the girl who finds her tribe with fellow ‘sinners’ at a religious camp where they are told to pray the gay away.
Director: Desiree Akhavan
Overview
On her prom night in 1993, Cameron (Chloë Grace Moretz) is caught making out with a fellow female student, and is promptly sent to a conversion camp to ‘pray the gay away.’ There, she bonds with some of the other young residents while they wait to be released.
Desiree Akhavan’s follow-up to her acclaimed debut Appropriate Behaviour picked up the Grand Jury Prize at this year’s Sundance festival.
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