Honey Boy

2019 • 94 minute

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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 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 acting 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 therapy and imagination as hope.

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As simple as it is complex. This work of art is capable of giving any age audience 13+ the opportunity to observe and become aware of what children in the tween years know, see and feel. Massive trigger warning required for people that have experienced PTSD and abuse.

Well written, and the filming is stunning. Storyline is simple yet complex. Overall its a really great movie. I had to re-watch it twice.