Honey Boy
Buoyed by sensitive and ferocious ensemble turns, 'Honey Boy' is a cinematic salve for a tortured soul.
Honey Boy
From a screenplay by Shia LaBeouf, based on his own experiences, award-winning filmmaker Alma Har'el (Bombay Beach, LoveTrue) brings to life a young actor's stormy childhood and early adult years as he struggles to reconcile with his father and deal with his mental health. Fictionalizing his ascent to stardom, and subsequent crash-landing into rehab and recovery, Har'el casts Noah Jupe (A Quiet Place) and Lucas Hedges (Boy Erased, Manchester by the Sea) as Otis Lort, navigating different stages in a frenetic career. LaBeouf takes on the therapeutic challenge of playing a version of his own father, an ex-rodeo clown and a felon. Dancer-singer 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 through the life and times of a talented, traumatized performer who dares to go in search of himself.
Genre
Drama,
Women and Film,
Bio-pic
Runtime
94
Language
English
Director
Alma Har'el
Writer(s)
Shia LaBeouf
Cast
Shia LaBeouf,
Lucas Hedges,
Noah Jupe,
FKA twigs
Awards:
Nominee, Best Director, Spirit Awards
Nominee, Best Supporting Male, Spirit Awards
Nominee, Best Supporting Male, Spirit Awards
Nominee, Best Cinematography, Spirit Awards
MOREFEATURED REVIEW
Lindsey Bahr, Associated Press
“Honey Boy” will break your heart. It hardly matters if you’ve never given a second thought to the circumstances of Shia LaBeouf’s life, his childhood or his rocky early adult years. But this is the kind of universally moving work that can only emerge from something immensely specific and personal.
Played at
NoHo 7 11.27.19 - 12.12.19
Glendale 11.27.19 - 12.12.19
Playhouse 7 11.27.19 - 12.12.19
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