Honey Boy

(2019)

★ 7 IMDb · 750 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 2019

Runtime: 94 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Альма Харель

Cast: Шайа ЛаБаф, Лукас Хеджес, Ноа Джуп, Байрон Бауэрс, Лора Сан Джакомо, FKA twigs, Наташа Лионн, Майка Монро, Клифтон Коллинз мл., Scar

Plot

The story of a child star attempting to mend his relationship with his law-breaking, alcohol-abusing father over the course of a decade, loosely based on Shia LaBeouf’s life.

From a screenplay by Shia LaBeouf, based on his own experiences, award-winning filmmaker Alma Har'el brings to life a young actor's stormy childhood and early adult years as he struggles to reconcile with his father through cinema and dreams. Fictionalizing his childhood's ascent to stardom, and subsequent adult crash-landing into rehab and recovery, Har'el casts Noah Jupe and Lucas Hedges as Otis Lort, navigating different stages in a frenetic career. LaBeouf takes on the daring and therapeutic challenge of playing a version of his own father, an ex-rodeo clown and a felon. Artist and musician FKA Twigs makes her feature-film debut, playing neighbor and kindred spirit to the younger Otis in their garden-court motel home. Har'el's feature narrative debut is a one-of-a-kind collaboration between filmmaker and subject, exploring art as medicine and imagination as hope.