Mark Finney, Faculty Advisor
Set in contemporary Arkansas, “Boy Erased” is a biographical film about a young man, named Jared, who is caught between his homosexuality and his Baptist parents’ conviction that it is a sin and a choice. Jared is sent for gay conversion therapy. Based on Garrard Conley’s 2016 memoir of the same name, “Boy Erased” stars Lucas Hedges as Jared, Nicole Kidman as his mother and Russell Crowe as his father. As A.O. Scott explains in his review for the New York Times, ““Boy Erased” tries to be more than a simple culture-war morality play.” Instead, Jared’s parents are represented as loving and struggle with their faith and with their choice to send Jared to conversion therapy. But at the same time, we can anticipate that “Boy Erased” will interrogate the institution of gay conversion therapy and ask the audience to consider the boundaries between love and acceptance, change and personality. In order to receive Lyceum credit, students must have their names recorded by Dr. Mark Finney at the Cinemall, after getting tickets and before the film begins.
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