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Honey Boy (2019)
Director:
Alma Har'el
Writer:
Shia LaBeouf
Starring:
Shia LaBeouf, Lucas Hedges, Noah Jupe, Byron Bowers
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.
Plot summary from IMDb: A young actor's stormy childhood and early adult years as he struggles to reconcile with his father and deal with his mental health.
Awards: 9 wins & 33 nominations.
Runtime: 94 min
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