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Boy Erased is a 2018 American biographical drama film based on Garrard Conley's 2016 memoir of the same name. It was written and directed by Joel Edgerton, who also produced with Kerry Kohansky Roberts and Steve Golin.
Nov 8, 2018 · Boy Erased: Directed by Joel Edgerton. With Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe, Madelyn Cline. The son of a Baptist preacher unwillingly participates in a church-supported gay conversion program after being forcibly outed to his parents.
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- Biography, Drama
- Joel Edgerton
- 2018-11-08
A kindly doctor (in a memorable cameo by veteran actor Cherry Jones) happens to be the only grown-up who privately tells Jared that he is a perfectly healthy and normal teenage boy. And yet, Jared gets denied his true identity by almost everyone else.
Nov 11, 2018 · Garrard Conley's memoir of growing up as the gay son of a conservative Baptist preacher has been made into a movie. He speaks with NPR's Michel Martin.
Synopsis. Childhood videos of a sweet, innocent boy (real life footage of the film's star Lucas Hedges) play. The boy now grown, Jared, is a teenager sitting in church while his dad, Marshall Eamons (Russell Crowe), gives a sermon about how nobody's perfect.
Boy Erased tells the courageous story of Jared Eamons (Lucas Hedges), the son of a Baptist pastor in a small American town, who must overcome the fallout of being outed to his...