Director Joel Edgerton
Genre Biography | Drama
Cast Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman, Joel Edgerton, Russell Crowe
Rating R
Release Date November 2nd, 2018
“The son of a baptist preacher is forced to participate in a church-supported gay conversion program.”
From actor turned director Joel Edgerton, Boy Erased is a biography drama based on Garrard Conley's memoir telling his story of when he was forced to participate in a church-supported gay conversion program. The talented cast includes Lucas Hedges (Manchester by the Sea, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), Nicole Kidman, Joel Edgerton, and Russell Crowe. Check out the official trailer below!!
Ted Takes Film Facts, Boy Erased:
By the time Garrard Conley's memoir was released, only a handful of US states had banned gay conversion therapy, those being Vermont, California, New Jersey, Illinois, Oregon and the District of Colombia. Mainstream health and medical groups have rejected the underlying assumptions that LGBTQ people need to or can change their sexuality.
Garrard Conley turned down the opportunity to write the adaptation himself as he believed a filmmaker would be better fit to translate his memoir to the big screen.
Focus Features won the rights to the film in a bidding war against Annapurna Pictures, Netflix and Amazon Studios.