Honey Boy

Film - 2019

6,7

52.5K

Honey Boy it's a movie with Shia LaBeouf, Lucas Hedges, Noah Jupe, Byron Bowers, Laura San Giacomo Full cast. Directed by Alma Har'el. Original title Honey Boy, runtime 94 minutes. Genre Drama.

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Emiliano Baglio

I will make a film about you. Sì concludes Otis' (Lucas Hedges) rehabilitation journey with this premise. Otis is a young and famous actor who, after yet another arrest for drunkenness, finds himself forced to agree to enter a rehab Here he will have the opportunity to think back to his childhood (playing him as a boy is Noah Jupe) and above all to his relationship with his father James (Shia LaBeouf). Can a personal story become universal? Given the results of Honey Boy, the answer is definitely yes. In reality, LaBeouf is behind Alma Har'el's first fiction film. Honey Boy, in fact, is a deeply autobiographical story. The actor decided to put scene his childhood, marked by an alcoholic and heroin addict father and by mental and psychological abuse but also his present as an actor who has had problems with the police several times. The risk was that a film for fans only would emerge .Honey boy, on the other hand, is an excellent example of how cinema can be a real form of therapy and yet, at the same time, it is a vivid, intense and poetic testimony of child abuse. Har'el has created a capable film to paint an entire reality, that of a marginal and marginalized America, made up of veterans, alcoholics, losers, society's rejects and prostitutes. The squalid motel where Otis and James live, the narrow and suffocating place where their psychotherapy, is a direct relative of the one seen in A dream called Florida (http://www.euroroma.net/6731/TUTTI/the-florida-project-un-sogno-call-florida-lennesimo-meraviglioso-film-di -un-regista-semplicemente-immenso.html) and it is certainly no coincidence that at the center of both films there are children. Of course the context changes but we should certainly not be fooled by the Hollywood lights in which Otis moves. Behind hidden among them is the violence of a father who unloads all his frustrations on his son. As Otis himself will say, the only Read all

Francesca Munarin

Gabriele Cantoni

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The story of a child star attempting to mend his relationship with his law-breaking, alcohol-abusing father over the course of a decade, loosely based on Shia LaBeouf’s life.