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* MamaBear: As soon as it becomes clear that Love in Action is mistreating her son, Nancy snaps and does not hesitate to remove him from the program, even delivering a scathing ReasonWhyYouSuckSpeech to Sykes on the way out. Nancy giving a DeathGlare as they walk out scared others from interfering. When her husband finds out that she’s pulled out Jared from Love in Action, he demands that he go back, but Nancy makes it perfectly clear that her son isn’t going anywhere.

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* MamaBear: As soon as it becomes clear that Love in Action is mistreating her son, Nancy snaps and does not hesitate to remove him from the program, even delivering a scathing ReasonWhyYouSuckSpeech to Sykes on the way out. Nancy giving a DeathGlare as they walk out scared out, scaring others from interfering. When her husband finds out that she’s pulled out Jared from Love in Action, he demands that he go back, but Nancy makes it perfectly clear that her son isn’t going anywhere.
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* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Sykes goes as low as to outright tell Nancy that she’s “ruining” her child just because they saw right through his abuse and pulled out said child. [[MamaBear Nancy]] is having none of this and asks him a serious of questions that shut him up for good.

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* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Sykes goes as low as to outright tell Nancy that she’s “ruining” her child just because they saw right through his abuse and pulled out said child. decided to leave. [[MamaBear Nancy]] is having none of this and asks him a serious series of questions that shut him up for good.

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* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Sykes goes as low as to outright tell Nancy that she’s “ruining” her child just because they saw right through his abuse and pulled out said child. [[MamaBear Nancy]] is having none of this and asks him a serious of questions that shut him up for good.
-->''What are your actual qualifications, Mr. Sykes? I never asked. Hmm? Are you a doctor? Are you? Psychologist? I mean, a proper one? Are you? No. I didn't think so. Shame on you! Shame on me, too. Shame on you!''



* MamaBear: As soon as it becomes clear that Love in Action is mistreating her son, Nancy snaps and does not hesitate to remove him from the program, even delivering a scathing ReasonWhyYouSuckSpeech to Sykes on the way out.

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* MamaBear: As soon as it becomes clear that Love in Action is mistreating her son, Nancy snaps and does not hesitate to remove him from the program, even delivering a scathing ReasonWhyYouSuckSpeech to Sykes on the way out. Nancy giving a DeathGlare as they walk out scared others from interfering. When her husband finds out that she’s pulled out Jared from Love in Action, he demands that he go back, but Nancy makes it perfectly clear that her son isn’t going anywhere.
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** [[spoiler:The WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue reveals that Victor Sykes's RealLife counterpart [[https://stuarte.co/2018/what-happened-to-victor-sykes-from-boy-erased-who-is-john-smid/ John Smid]] quit Love in Action, and eventually reconciled with his sexuality and married another man.]]

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** [[spoiler:The WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue reveals that Victor Sykes's RealLife counterpart [[https://stuarte.co/2018/what-happened-to-victor-sykes-from-boy-erased-who-is-john-smid/ John Smid]] quit Love in Action, and eventually reconciled came to terms with his sexuality and married another man.]]
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** [[spoiler:Henry]] outs Jared as gay [[spoiler:to deflect from his rape.]]

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** [[spoiler:Henry]] outs Jared as gay [[spoiler:to deflect from his rape.rape of Jared.]]
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* BlamingTheVictim:
** [[spoiler:Henry]] outs Jared as gay [[spoiler:to deflect from his rape.]]
** Jared originally lists [[spoiler:Henry]] as one of his sins.
** The counselor hints that Jared should blame himself.
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'''Boy Erased''' is a biographical drama film written and directed by Creator/JoelEdgerton and based on the memoir of the same title written by Garrard Conley.

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'''Boy Erased''' ''Boy Erased'' is a biographical drama film written and directed by Creator/JoelEdgerton and based on the memoir of the same title written by Garrard Conley.
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* ThePastorsQueerKid: Jared is the gay son of a Baptist preacher. His conservative parents enter him into a [[CureYourGays conversion therapy program]].
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* InTheBlood: Love in Action believes this to be the case; one of its exercises involves its patients writing down geneologies to trace where their sinful behavior comes from.


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* VillainousLineage: Love in Action believes this to be the case; one of its exercises involves its patients writing down geneologies to trace where their sinful behavior comes from.

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* [[spoiler:BuryYourGays]]: [[spoiler:Cameron Van Heusen, who commits suicide partly as a result of the conversion therapy.]]

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* [[spoiler:BuryYourGays]]: BuryYourGays: [[spoiler:Cameron Van Heusen, who commits suicide partly as a result of the conversion therapy.]]



* [[spoiler:GayngstInducedSuicide]]: [[spoiler:Cameron.]]

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* [[spoiler:GayngstInducedSuicide]]: GayngstInducedSuicide: [[spoiler:Cameron.]]]]
* InTheBlood: Love in Action believes this to be the case; one of its exercises involves its patients writing down geneologies to trace where their sinful behavior comes from.



* InTheBlood: Love in Action believes this to be the case; one of its exercises involves its patients writing down geneologies to trace where their sinful behavior comes from.



* ManlyGay[=/=]StraightGay: Jared was an athlete in high school and is the only member of the group shown to do well at Brandon's assessments of "manliness". He also doesn't display any camp mannerisms.

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* ManlyGay[=/=]StraightGay: ManlyGay: Jared was an athlete in high school and is the only member of the group shown to do well at Brandon's assessments of "manliness". He also doesn't display any camp mannerisms.
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*AdaptationalNameChange: So many, but the most noticeable being Garrard Conley becoming Jared Eames and David becoming Henry.
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* NothingIsScarier: The viewer never actually learns precisely what happens at the houses behind the center where its long term "patients" stay, but absolutely everyone is ''terrified out of their minds'' of being sent there. [[spoiler:Fortunately, Jared gets out just as Sykes makes the decision to commit him]].
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* AbusiveParents: Like Jared's parents, most of the parents who send their teens to Love in Action are simply misguided (at one point, a pair of parents angrily pull their son out the program after a physical exercise gone awry). That's ''definitely'' not the case for Cameron's father, who emotionally abuses his son by constantly belittling and embarrassing him. [[spoiler: This culminates in a humiliating mock funeral staged after Cameron lapses, which includes members of his entire family (including his tearful little sister) ''beating him with bibles'' as he kneels in front of a casket.]]

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* AbusiveParents: Like Jared's parents, most of the parents who send their teens to Love in Action are simply misguided (at one point, a pair of parents angrily pull their son out the program after a physical exercise gone awry). That's ''definitely'' not the case for Cameron's father, who emotionally abuses his son by constantly belittling and embarrassing him. [[spoiler: This [[spoiler:This culminates in a humiliating mock funeral staged after Cameron lapses, which includes members of his entire family (including his tearful little sister) ''beating him with bibles'' as he kneels in front of a casket.]]



* [[spoiler:BuryYourGays]]: [[spoiler: Cameron Van Heusen, who commits suicide partly as a result of the conversion therapy.]]

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* [[spoiler:BuryYourGays]]: [[spoiler: Cameron [[spoiler:Cameron Van Heusen, who commits suicide partly as a result of the conversion therapy.]]



* ForcedOutOfTheCloset: Jared is outed to his parents by [[spoiler: Henry, his rapist.]]

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* ForcedOutOfTheCloset: Jared is outed to his parents by [[spoiler: Henry, [[spoiler:Henry, his rapist.]]rapist]].



* [[spoiler: GayngstInducedSuicide]]: [[spoiler:Cameron.]]

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* [[spoiler: GayngstInducedSuicide]]: [[spoiler:GayngstInducedSuicide]]: [[spoiler:Cameron.]]



* ManlyGay / StraightGay: Jared was an athlete in high school and is the only member of the group shown to do well at Brandon's assessments of "manliness". He also doesn't display any camp mannerisms.

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* ManlyGay / StraightGay: ManlyGay[=/=]StraightGay: Jared was an athlete in high school and is the only member of the group shown to do well at Brandon's assessments of "manliness". He also doesn't display any camp mannerisms.



* RageBreakingPoint: [[spoiler: Sykes tried to get Jared to bring up Henry, his rapist during a "therapy" session, as well as trying to get him to say he hated his father. Jared has finally had enough and starts screaming at the consulors and stages an escape to meet his mom.]]

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* RageBreakingPoint: [[spoiler: Sykes [[spoiler:Sykes tried to get Jared to bring up Henry, his rapist rapist, during a "therapy" session, as well as trying to get him to say he hated his father. Jared has finally had enough and starts screaming at the consulors counselors and stages an escape to meet his mom.]]
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* LetsWaitAwhile: Jared says this to his high school girlfriend, which presumably leads to them breaking up not long after.

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* LetsWaitAwhile: LetsWaitAWhile: Jared says this to his high school girlfriend, which presumably leads to them breaking up not long after.
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* DepravedHomosexual: [[spoiler:Henry is a sexual predator who rapes Henry and at least one other young man.]]

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* DepravedHomosexual: [[spoiler:Henry is a sexual predator who rapes Henry Jared and at least one other young man.]]
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** [[spoiler:The WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue reveals that Victor Sykes RealLife counterpart [[https://stuarte.co/2018/what-happened-to-victor-sykes-from-boy-erased-who-is-john-smid/ John Smid]] quit Love in Action, and eventually reconciled with his sexuality and married another man.]]

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** [[spoiler:The WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue reveals that Victor Sykes Sykes's RealLife counterpart [[https://stuarte.co/2018/what-happened-to-victor-sykes-from-boy-erased-who-is-john-smid/ John Smid]] quit Love in Action, and eventually reconciled with his sexuality and married another man.]]

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* AbusiveParents: Like Jared's parents, most of the parents who send their teens to Love in Action are simply misguided (at one point, a pair of parents angrily pull their son out the program after a physical exercise gone awry). That's ''definitely'' not the case for Cameron's father, who emotionally abuses his son by constantly belittling and embarrassing him. [[spoiler: This culminates in a humiliating mock funeral staged after Cameron lapses, which includes members of his entire family (including his tearful little sister) ''beating him with bibles'' as he kneels in front of a casket.]]



* CureYourGays: The film (and the book its based on) is all based around showing how this is a ''very bad thing'', even from people who might believe they have good intentions or if the gay person might "want" to become straight. [[AnAesop Trying to make people become someone they're not is incredibly dangerous, especially if it's attempted using humiliation and physical abuse.]]

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* CureYourGays: The film (and the book its based on) is all based around showing how this conversion therapy is a ''very bad thing'', even from people who might believe they have good intentions or if the gay person might "want" to become straight. [[AnAesop Trying to make people become someone they're not is incredibly dangerous, especially if it's attempted using humiliation and physical abuse.]]


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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Poor Cameron ends up killing himself shortly after helping Jared escape from Love in Action.]]

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** [[spoiler:The WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue reveals that Sykes quit Love in Action to marry his husband.]]

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** [[spoiler:The WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue reveals that Victor Sykes RealLife counterpart [[https://stuarte.co/2018/what-happened-to-victor-sykes-from-boy-erased-who-is-john-smid/ John Smid]] quit Love in Action to marry Action, and eventually reconciled with his husband.sexuality and married another man.]]


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* RageBreakingPoint: [[spoiler: Sykes tried to get Jared to bring up Henry, his rapist during a "therapy" session, as well as trying to get him to say he hated his father. Jared has finally had enough and starts screaming at the consulors and stages an escape to meet his mom.]]
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* IWantGrandkids: Marshall is very invested in getting his only son to marry his high school girlfriend for this reason; when Jared comes out, this is also one of the main reasons for his anger.
* InTheBlood: Love in Action believes this to be the case; one of its exercises involves its patients writing down geneologies to trace where their sinful behavior comes from.


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* MamaBear: As soon as it becomes clear that Love in Action is mistreating her son, Nancy snaps and does not hesitate to remove him from the program, even delivering a scathing ReasonWhyYouSuckSpeech to Sykes on the way out.


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* RougeAnglesOfSatin: One of the most noticeable signs that Love in Action is ''not'' a reputable psychological institution is rampant misspellings and grammar errors in its handbooks, including spelling "God" as "Dog".
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* AwardBaitSong: Besides portraying a small supporting role, Music/TroyeSivan lends the movie the original song "Revelation", which plays twice during the movie.

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* AwardBaitSong: Besides portraying a small supporting role, Music/TroyeSivan lends the movie provides the original song "Revelation", which plays twice during the movie.
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* 20MinutesIntoThePast: The film is mainly set during TheTurnOfTheMilennium. This is most noticeably reflected by Jared's huge cell phone, though the styles, cars, and video games are also fairly accurate to the time period.

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* 20MinutesIntoThePast: TwentyMinutesIntoThePast: The film is mainly set during TheTurnOfTheMilennium.the TurnOfTheMillennium. This is most noticeably reflected by Jared's huge cell phone, though the styles, cars, and video games are also fairly accurate to the time period.

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* 20MinutesIntoThePast: The film is mainly set during TheTurnOfTheMilennium. This is most noticeably reflected by Jared's huge cell phone, though the styles, cars, and video games are also fairly accurate to the time period.



* BuryYourGays: [[spoiler: Cameron Van Heusen]], who commits suicide partly as a result of the conversion therapy.

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* BuryYourGays: [[spoiler:BuryYourGays]]: [[spoiler: Cameron Van Heusen]], Heusen, who commits suicide partly as a result of the conversion therapy.]]



* MistakenForMasturbating: A rare serious example: Jared goes to bathroom unsupervised for some privacy and is caught by Brandon. Because a part of the therapy is a ban on any kind of sexual behavior, Jared has to fake using the restroom to avoid punishment.

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* MistakenForMasturbating: A rare serious example: Jared goes to bathroom unsupervised for some privacy and is caught by Brandon. Because a part of the therapy is a ban on any kind of sexual behavior, Jared has to fake using the restroom to avoid punishment.punishment.
* ParentsAsPeople: Marshall and Nancy are shown to make a tremendously harmful mistake by not vetting Love in Action and by not accepting and supporting their son for who he is in the first place. However, they are both shown to genuinely love Jared, their decision to sign him up for conversion coming from wanting to "help" him in accordance with their religious upbringings. [[spoiler:Both eventually come to realize their mistake and ask for Jared's forgiveness, though Marshall takes a few more years than Nancy.]]
* WomenAreWiser: Unlike her husband, Nancy is hesitant to sign Jared up for conversion therapy and almost immediately begins to recognize the issues with the program even when Jared keeps silent. [[spoiler:She doesn't hesitate to remove him from the program when asked and apologizes to Jared for her mistake, something that takes Marshall many more years.]]

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The movie stars Creator/LucasHedges as Jared Eamons, the gay teenage son of a Baptist preacher (Creator/RussellCrowe) who after being outed is forced to join a [[CureYourGays conversion therapy group]]. The movie co-stars Creator/NicoleKidman as Jared's mother, Nancy Eamons; Joel Edgerton as Victor Sykes, the leader of the camp; [[Music/RedHotChiliPeppers Flea]] as Brandon, a counselor at the camp; and Music/TroyeSivan, Creator/XavierDolan, and Joe Alwyn as fellow members of the camp.

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The movie stars Creator/LucasHedges as Jared Eamons, the gay teenage son of a Baptist preacher (Creator/RussellCrowe) who after being outed is forced to join a [[CureYourGays conversion therapy group]]. The movie co-stars Creator/NicoleKidman as Jared's mother, Nancy Eamons; Joel Edgerton as Victor Sykes, the leader of the camp; [[Music/RedHotChiliPeppers Flea]] as Brandon, a counselor at the camp; and Music/TroyeSivan, Creator/XavierDolan, Music/TroyeSivan and Joe Alwyn Creator/XavierDolan as fellow members of the camp.



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!! ''Boy Erased'' contains examples of:

* ArmouredClosetGay:
** Jon is a variation; he is so dedicated to succeeding in the program that he refuses to physically touch another man and berates other patients for not trying hard enough.
** [[spoiler:The WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue reveals that Sykes quit Love in Action to marry his husband.]]
* AwardBaitSong: Besides portraying a small supporting role, Music/TroyeSivan lends the movie the original song "Revelation", which plays twice during the movie.
* TheBeard: Jared's high school girlfriend, Chloe.




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* CastFullOfGay
* CureYourGays: The film (and the book its based on) is all based around showing how this is a ''very bad thing'', even from people who might believe they have good intentions or if the gay person might "want" to become straight. [[AnAesop Trying to make people become someone they're not is incredibly dangerous, especially if it's attempted using humiliation and physical abuse.]]
* DepravedHomosexual: [[spoiler:Henry is a sexual predator who rapes Henry and at least one other young man.]]
* ExperimentedInCollege: Jared has his first romantic connection with another man at college, away from the supervision of his religious parents.







* KarmaHoudini: Henry. He receives no punishment in-universe for any of the wrongs he commits.

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\n* [[spoiler: GayngstInducedSuicide]]: [[spoiler:Cameron.]]
* LetsWaitAwhile: Jared says this to his high school girlfriend, which presumably leads to them breaking up not long after.
* KarmaHoudini: Henry. He receives no punishment in-universe for any of the wrongs he commits.commits.
* ManlyGay / StraightGay: Jared was an athlete in high school and is the only member of the group shown to do well at Brandon's assessments of "manliness". He also doesn't display any camp mannerisms.
* MistakenForMasturbating: A rare serious example: Jared goes to bathroom unsupervised for some privacy and is caught by Brandon. Because a part of the therapy is a ban on any kind of sexual behavior, Jared has to fake using the restroom to avoid punishment.
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The movie stars Creator/LucasHedges as Jared Eamons, the gay teenage son of a Baptist preacher (Creator/RussellCrowe) who after being outed is forced to join a [[CureYourGays conversion therapy group]]. The movie co-stars Creator/NicoleKidman as Jared's mother Nancy Eamons, Joel Edgerton as Victor Sykes, the leader of the camp, [[Music/RedHotChiliPeppers Flea]] as Brandon, a counselor, Music/TroyeSivan, Creator/XavierDolan, and Joe Alwyn as fellow members of the camp.

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The movie stars Creator/LucasHedges as Jared Eamons, the gay teenage son of a Baptist preacher (Creator/RussellCrowe) who after being outed is forced to join a [[CureYourGays conversion therapy group]]. The movie co-stars Creator/NicoleKidman as Jared's mother mother, Nancy Eamons, Eamons; Joel Edgerton as Victor Sykes, the leader of the camp, camp; [[Music/RedHotChiliPeppers Flea]] as Brandon, a counselor, counselor at the camp; and Music/TroyeSivan, Creator/XavierDolan, and Joe Alwyn as fellow members of the camp.
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The movie stars Creator/LucasHedges as Jared Eamons, the gay teenage son of a Baptist preacher (Creator/RussellCrowe) who after being outed is forced to join a [[CureYourGays conversion therapy group]]. The movie co-stars Creator/NicoleKidman as Conley's mother Nancy Eamons, Joel Edgerton as the leader of the camp, [[Music/RedHotChiliPeppers Flea]] as a counselor, Music/TroyeSivan, Creator/XavierDolan, and Joe Alwyn as fellow members of the camp.

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The movie stars Creator/LucasHedges as Jared Eamons, the gay teenage son of a Baptist preacher (Creator/RussellCrowe) who after being outed is forced to join a [[CureYourGays conversion therapy group]]. The movie co-stars Creator/NicoleKidman as Conley's Jared's mother Nancy Eamons, Joel Edgerton as Victor Sykes, the leader of the camp, [[Music/RedHotChiliPeppers Flea]] as Brandon, a counselor, Music/TroyeSivan, Creator/XavierDolan, and Joe Alwyn as fellow members of the camp.



* ForcedOutOfTheCloset: How Jared is outed to his parents.

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* ForcedOutOfTheCloset: How Jared is outed to his parents.
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The movie stars Creator/LucasHedges as Conley, a gay teenage son of a Baptist preacher (Creator/RussellCrowe) who after being outed is forced to join a [[CureYourGays conversion therapy group]]. The movie co-stars Creator/NicoleKidman as Conley's mother, Joel Edgerton as the leader of the camp, and Music/TroyeSivan, Creator/XavierDolan, and Joe Alwyn as fellow members of the camp.

The movie was released on November 8, 2018. The trailer can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B71eyB_Onw here]].

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The movie stars Creator/LucasHedges as Conley, a Jared Eamons, the gay teenage son of a Baptist preacher (Creator/RussellCrowe) who after being outed is forced to join a [[CureYourGays conversion therapy group]]. The movie co-stars Creator/NicoleKidman as Conley's mother, mother Nancy Eamons, Joel Edgerton as the leader of the camp, and [[Music/RedHotChiliPeppers Flea]] as a counselor, Music/TroyeSivan, Creator/XavierDolan, and Joe Alwyn as fellow members of the camp.

The movie was released on November 8, 2018. The trailer can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B71eyB_Onw here]].here]].

* BuryYourGays: [[spoiler: Cameron Van Heusen]], who commits suicide partly as a result of the conversion therapy.

* ForcedOutOfTheCloset: How Jared is outed to his parents.

* {{Gayngst}}: The lead character, as well as many of the other therapy participants.

* KarmaHoudini: Henry. He receives no punishment in-universe for any of the wrongs he commits.
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'''Boy Erased''' is an upcoming biographical drama film written and directed by Creator/JoelEdgerton and based on the memoir of the same title written by Garrard Conley.

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'''Boy Erased''' is an upcoming a biographical drama film written and directed by Creator/JoelEdgerton and based on the memoir of the same title written by Garrard Conley.



The movie will be released on November 8, 2018. The trailer can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B71eyB_Onw here]].

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The movie will be was released on November 8, 2018. The trailer can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B71eyB_Onw here]].
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The movie stars Creator/LucasHedges as Conley, a gay teenage son of a Baptist preacher (Creator/RussellCrowe) who after being outed is forced to join a [[CureYourGays conversion therapy group]]. The movie co-stars Creator/NicoleKidman as Conley's mother, Joel Edgerton as the leader of the camp, and Creator/TroyeSivan, Creator/XavierDolan, and Joe Alwyn as fellow members of the camp.

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The movie stars Creator/LucasHedges as Conley, a gay teenage son of a Baptist preacher (Creator/RussellCrowe) who after being outed is forced to join a [[CureYourGays conversion therapy group]]. The movie co-stars Creator/NicoleKidman as Conley's mother, Joel Edgerton as the leader of the camp, and Creator/TroyeSivan, Music/TroyeSivan, Creator/XavierDolan, and Joe Alwyn as fellow members of the camp.
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'''Boy Erased''' is an upcoming biographical draw film written and directed by Creator/JoelEdgerton and based on the memoir of the same title written by Garrard Conley.

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'''Boy Erased''' is an upcoming biographical draw drama film written and directed by Creator/JoelEdgerton and based on the memoir of the same title written by Garrard Conley.
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'''Boy Erased''' is an upcoming biographical draw film written and directed by Creator/JoelEdgerton and based on the memoir of the same title written by Garrard Conley.

The movie stars Creator/LucasHedges as Conley, a gay teenage son of a Baptist preacher (Creator/RussellCrowe) who after being outed is forced to join a [[CureYourGays conversion therapy group]]. The movie co-stars Creator/NicoleKidman as Conley's mother, Joel Edgerton as the leader of the camp, and Creator/TroyeSivan, Creator/XavierDolan, and Joe Alwyn as fellow members of the camp.

The movie will be released on November 8, 2018. The trailer can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B71eyB_Onw here]].

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