{"id":571,"date":"2021-05-31T16:34:05","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T16:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/?p=571"},"modified":"2021-05-31T16:34:05","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T16:34:05","slug":"147-boy-erased-focus-features-part-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/2021\/05\/31\/147-boy-erased-focus-features-part-five\/","title":{"rendered":"147 – Boy Erased (Focus Features – Part Five)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Our Focus Features miniseries comes to a close with 2018\u2032s\u00a0Boy Erased<\/i>. Based on the memoir by Garrard Conley, the film stars Lucas Hedges as a young man from a religious family who is subjected to conversion therapy when his parents (played by Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe) discover that he is gay. Though sensitively approached by director\/star Joel Edgerton, the film is ultimately is too reserved and stumbles to get inside the head of its protagonist, resulting in a milquetoast response from awards voters and audiences.<\/p>\n

This episode, we discuss Hedges\u2019 busy fall of 2018, his soft coming out of sorts, and the Ben Beautiful Boy Erased is Back blur of movies in that season. We also look at Crowe\u2019s quiet end to being considered an Oscar darling and Kidman\u2019s dual THOB fall 2018 with\u00a0Destroyer<\/i>. And we get into the film\u2019s ups (a strong cast of bit players!) and downs (that perfume ad scene!) in telling a queer story, and of course\u00a0\u201cBloom.\u201d<\/p>\n

Topics also include 2018\u2032s Original Song race, sprained ankles at TIFF, and our Top 10 favorite Focus Features films.<\/p>\n

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Our Focus Features miniseries comes to a close with 2018\u2032s\u00a0Boy Erased. Based on the memoir by Garrard Conley, the film stars Lucas Hedges as a young man from a religious family who is subjected to conversion therapy when his parents (played by Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe) discover that he is gay. Though sensitively approached … Continue reading “147 – Boy Erased (Focus Features – Part Five)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5,729,730,714,422,264,731,3,167,6,732,733,552],"class_list":["post-571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","hentry","category-this-had-oscar-buzz","tag-academy-awards","tag-boy-erased","tag-cherry-jones","tag-focus-features","tag-joel-edgerton","tag-lgbtq","tag-lucas-hedges","tag-movies","tag-nicole-kidman","tag-oscars","tag-russell-crowe","tag-troye-sivan","tag-xavier-dolan","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions\/573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}