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ABOVE: Mirror, mirror ... NM, we know the answer.
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ABOVE: Mirror, mirror ... NM, we know the answer.
ABOVE: Your #TBT could never.
Streep & Corden as Broadway babies toasting another failure. (Images via Netflix)
Ryan Murphy adapted Broadway's semi-hit musical The Prom for Netflix with the best of intentions — he said, at a post-screening Zoom Q&A Sunday, that he was moved by the idea of bringing an LGBTQ-positive message to a massive, global platform.
Unfortunately, he chose a creaky vehicle, one that asks us to consider that homophobes might not be sooo bad, except for their homophobia (imagine that message being delivered on race?), and then chooses the wrong actor to hammer the message home.
ABOVE: I guess this is what they mean by good light?
ABOVE: Hot (master-) piece!
Hedges, the boy erased (Images via Focus Features)
Boy Erased, based on Garrard Conley's 2016 memoir about his time in conversion therapy at the insistence of his religious parents, has been brought to the screen by producer, director, writer and actor Joel Edgerton, who has given the book an empathetic, sobering, unimaginative yet affecting adaptation that rises above its shortcomings to pack an emotional punch.
Lucas Hedges on His Sexual Orientation
Coming after the release of the gutsier The Miseducation of Cameron Post, whose protagonist and director are female, Boy Erased can't help but feel decidedly more conventional, focusing on the story of an attractive white male who endures a stint at Love in Action just long enough to discover it's a harmful fraud, and who is immediately delivered from its clutches — the end.