Boy Erased (2018)
Country: US/AUS
Technical: col 115m
Director: Joel Edgerton
Cast: Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe, Joel Edgerton
Synopsis:
The son of an Arkansas lay preacher is withdrawn from college and sent for conversion therapy to an institution which shames its gay subjects into renouncing their sin and embracing the life God intended for them.
Review:
Like Redford's Ordinary People this is very much a portrait of an American middle class family in crisis, calling shamefaced upon an 'expert' to provide the answers to its problems. Thereafter, however, all the roles are swapped around, as this is a story not about open-minded science but blind faith, with only a mother's love to protect the boy from his persecutors. All three are excellent in their roles, and the detail around some of the conversion centre's less qualified staff is chilling indeed. Clearly a personal project for Edgerton, who is all understated villainy as the exorcist in chief.
Country: US/AUS
Technical: col 115m
Director: Joel Edgerton
Cast: Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe, Joel Edgerton
Synopsis:
The son of an Arkansas lay preacher is withdrawn from college and sent for conversion therapy to an institution which shames its gay subjects into renouncing their sin and embracing the life God intended for them.
Review:
Like Redford's Ordinary People this is very much a portrait of an American middle class family in crisis, calling shamefaced upon an 'expert' to provide the answers to its problems. Thereafter, however, all the roles are swapped around, as this is a story not about open-minded science but blind faith, with only a mother's love to protect the boy from his persecutors. All three are excellent in their roles, and the detail around some of the conversion centre's less qualified staff is chilling indeed. Clearly a personal project for Edgerton, who is all understated villainy as the exorcist in chief.
Country: US/AUS
Technical: col 115m
Director: Joel Edgerton
Cast: Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe, Joel Edgerton
Synopsis:
The son of an Arkansas lay preacher is withdrawn from college and sent for conversion therapy to an institution which shames its gay subjects into renouncing their sin and embracing the life God intended for them.
Review:
Like Redford's Ordinary People this is very much a portrait of an American middle class family in crisis, calling shamefaced upon an 'expert' to provide the answers to its problems. Thereafter, however, all the roles are swapped around, as this is a story not about open-minded science but blind faith, with only a mother's love to protect the boy from his persecutors. All three are excellent in their roles, and the detail around some of the conversion centre's less qualified staff is chilling indeed. Clearly a personal project for Edgerton, who is all understated villainy as the exorcist in chief.