Boy Erased

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Boy Erased

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2018

1h 55m

Biography

Drama

LGBTQ+

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Jared Eamons, the son of a small-town Baptist pastor, must overcome the fallout after being outed as gay to his parents. His father and mother struggle to reconcile their love for their son with their beliefs. Fearing a loss of family, friends and community, Jared is pressured into attending a conversion therapy program. While there, Jared comes into conflict with its leader and begins his journey to finding his own voice and accepting his true self.

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Critics Consensus

Anchored in empathy by writer-director-star Joel Edgerton, Boy Erased proves the road to complex, powerfully performed drama can also be paved with good intentions.

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Tara Brady

Irish Times

02/14/2019

3/5

Boy Erased is careful to humanise Jared's parents as loving, but wrongheaded. If anything, it's too respectful of their damaging views.

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Mark Kermode

Kermode & Mayo's Film Review

02/12/2019

I applaud the message of the film.

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Simran Hans

Observer (UK)

02/10/2019

2/5

The film feels thin, drab and ultimately unable to harness the collective power of its otherwise talented cast.

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Calum Cooper

Source (Scotland)

07/14/2024

2/5

It provides some interesting moments of drama and some insightful observations. But it feels emotionally lacking when all is said and done.

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Vadim Rizov

Filmmaker Magazine

01/05/2023

Boy Erased scans as, and turns out to be precisely, textbook Oscar-bait: it’s topical, its heart is in the right place, the cast is stacked, and despite all good intentions the final effect is very meh (“powerful” is a word I expect to see used a lot).

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M.N. Miller

Ready Steady Cut

08/17/2022

3.5/5

A deft touch is brought to a delicate subject matter that downplays rather than heightens, even as harrowing as scenes can be.

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Cory T

@D4rk_Ang3l.71 Jan 22

really captures the hell that are conversion camps/ therapy including the feeling of guilt for being queer. the assault scenes are horrible but it's to tell a story of struggle and pain that no soul should ever have to go through.. yet we STILL live in a society where it's so normalized. the movie was unbearably slow paced... I don't recommend watching it if you're already in a slump it will make you feel worse! some of the characters are horrible people and I wish that this wasn't based on a real story. I feel for the writer.

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Tom M

@RT77934561 Jan 21

Yes. Underwhelming is probably the word I would use. Maybe I expected it to be more harrowing. But midway there is probably where the truth lies. The people doing the converting have many hundreds of years of bible thumping homophobics creating the state of some Christian churches against homosexuality and it skews their worldview.

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Gavin H

@RT95700184 Jul 5

This is such an important message in the US and shows how damaging parenting can be if it's about them and their reputation rather than about the child. That is tricky to be sure. No one is trained to be a parent AND and that is a big AND having a moment of reflection, introspection is so vitally important to protecting our kids health. It also shows the harm in religion. I use that in the pejorative as if the bible is read as the intended reading, then homosexuality is no different than having a meal with mixed meat. There is tons of context in reading a religious book. Why single out one misread section and apply that to the whole of humanity. A very good coming to terms movie with lots of honest moments.

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judy b

@RT45753331 03/25/2025

Depressing and sad Had to stop watching halfway through

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Cathy S

@RT99565695 08/23/2024

Excellent movie, great acting

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Exllie T

@RT18942326 06/19/2024

The ideas behind it are good but the story line is so incredibly boring its unreal. Literally nothing happens its just the same thing over and over again. No drama or love interests or anything. I gave up with half an hour left because i was just so bored. I dont recommend.

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Synopsis

Jared Eamons, the son of a small-town Baptist pastor, must overcome the fallout after being outed as gay to his parents. His father and mother struggle to reconcile their love for their son with their beliefs. Fearing a loss of family, friends and community, Jared is pressured into attending a conversion therapy program. While there, Jared comes into conflict with its leader and begins his journey to finding his own voice and accepting his true self.

Director: Joel Edgerton
Producer: Kerry Kohansky-Roberts, Steve Golin, Joel Edgerton
Screenwriter: Joel Edgerton
Distributor: Focus Features
Production Co: Anonymous Content, Blue-Tongue Films
Rating: R (Brief Drug Use|An Assault|Sexual Content|Some Language)
Genre: Biography, Drama, LGBTQ+
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 16, 2018, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 15, 2019
Box Office (Gross USA): $6.7M
Runtime: 1h 55m
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

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