Next year, there will be two dramas about so-called gay conversion. There’s Joel Edgerton‘s awards season primed “Boy Erased,” but arriving first will be “Appropriate Behavior” director Desiree Akhavan‘s “The Miseducation of Cameron Post.”
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Starring Chloë Grace Moretz, Sasha Lane, Forrest Goodluck, John Gallagher Jr., and Jennifer Ehle (love that cast), the film is based on the novel by Emily Danforth, and while the story, unfortunately, remains timely, this film will unfold during the 1990s. Here’s the synopsis:
1993: after being caught having sex with the prom queen, a girl is forced into a gay conversion therapy center.
The Sundance Film Festival runs from January 18-28.