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Boy Erased

February 2019

  • Beautiful Boy; Ben Is Back; Esquire’s cover ‘star’

    Steve Rose on film
    Ben Is Back to Beautiful Boy: why the white male bombs at the box office

    Troubled white men, in film and on Esquire’s new cover, are everywhere. Does anyone care?
  • Nicole Kidman and Lucas Hedges in Boy Erased.

    Boy Erased review – starry but drab gay conversion drama

    The presence of Joel Edgerton, Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe isn’t enough to rescue this adaptation of Garrard Conley’s bestselling memoir
  • 2018, BOY ERASED<br>NICOLE KIDMAN &amp; LUCAS HEDGES Character(s): Nancy, Jared Film ‘BOY ERASED’ (2018) Directed By JOEL EDGERTON 28 September 2018 SAX93870 Allstar/FOCUS FEATURES **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of FOCUS FEATURES and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company &amp; can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To FOCUS FEATURES is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

    Boy Erased review – dark tale of a teenager's 'gay conversion' ordeal

    Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe play a couple who send their son to a sinister camp designed to ‘pray away’ his sexuality

January 2019

  • 2018, BOY ERASED<br>JOEL EDGERTON Character(s): Victor Sykes Film ‘BOY ERASED’ (2018) Directed By JOEL EDGERTON 28 September 2018 SAW91102 Allstar/FOCUS FEATURES **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of FOCUS FEATURES and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company &amp; can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To FOCUS FEATURES is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

    Joel Edgerton on Boy Erased: 'I crave the acceptance of the LGBTQ community'

    The actor-director talks about being under scrutiny as a straight man telling and appearing in a story about gay-conversion therapy

December 2018

  • Nicole Kidman photographed in London last month by Pal Hansen for the Observer New Review.

    Nicole Kidman: ‘To hear women being believed makes me cry’

    With Big Little Lies becoming a catalyst for the #MeToo movement, and her pledge to further the feminist cause in Hollywood, the actor explains how she plans to let her work do the talking

September 2018

  • Theodore Pellerin stars as “Xavier” and Lucas Hedges stars as “Jared” in Joel Edgerton’s BOY ERASED, a Focus Features release. FOCUS FEATURES

    First look review
    Boy Erased review – plodding gay conversion drama lacks power

    Strong performances from Lucas Hedges and Nicole Kidman aren’t enough to bring a disappointingly pedestrian tale to life

July 2018

  • Lucas Hedges in Boy Erased

    Boy Erased: first trailer for Oscar-tipped gay conversion drama revealed

    Oscar nominee Lucas Hedges stars as a young man sent away to a program aimed at ‘curing’ him of his homosexuality in the fact-based story

June 2018

  • Garrard Conley

    I was 19, gay and ready to be ‘cured’ by conversion therapy

    Born into a Baptist family, Garrard Conley was sent for conversion therapy to ‘treat’ his sexual identity. As his brave and bracing memoir is adapted into a film, he reveals why he still believes he is ‘one of the lucky ones’
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