Boy Erased

(2018)

★ 7 IMDb · 1,517 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 2018

Runtime: 115 мин

Country: Australia, China

Director: Джоэл Эдгертон

Cast: Лукас Хеджес, Николь Кидман, Рассел Кроу, Джоэл Эдгертон, Трой Сиван, Мэдлин Клайн, Фли, Ксавье Долан, Britton Sear, Черри Джонс

Plot

Jared, the son of a Baptist pastor in a small American town, is outed to his parents at age 19. Jared is faced with an ultimatum: attend a gay conversion therapy program – or be permanently exiled and shunned by his family, friends, and faith.

The Eamons family's lives center on their evangelism, on patriarch Marshall (an associate Baptist pastor), and on only offspring 18-year-old Jared, a freshman at a Christian college. Initiated by an unfounded accusation, Marshall and his wife Nancy send Jared to a conversion-therapy assessment camp under the direction of Victor Sykes, the aim of the camp to decide on the next step of the appropriate conversion therapy. While Nancy stays at a nearby hotel, Jared willingly goes in knowing his own internal feelings regardless of what his parents have been told about him in that half-truth accusation. Jared's recent past leading up to this moment is told in flashback, an outwardly straight-laced existence of that centered on the church and the long-term "natural path" of marriage--possibly to his high-school girlfriend--and children. While Jared does his best to adhere to what is asked of him to tell his truth, that truth may set him on a path to what he needs to do for himself. Will he be allowed to pursue that path, especially if it goes against his parents or Victor?