The Miseducation of Cameron Post
Director: Desiree AkhavanUSA, 2018 English 90 minutes
Principal Cast: Chloë Grace Moretz, Jennifer Ehle, Sasha Lane, Forrest Goodluck
After her clandestine romance with her female best friend is revealed, Cameron Post’s (Chloë Grace Moretz, Brain on Fire; The Clouds of Sils Maria) conservative aunt and guardian sends her away to undergo conversion therapy.
Despite dealing with the tragedy of losing her parents in a car crash, Cameron seemingly fits in well with her conservative Montana community: she performs well at school, holds a place on the track team, participates in her local youth group, and has a picture-perfect boyfriend on her arm. However, when she and her best friend Coley are caught embracing after a high school dance, Cameron’s life quickly comes crashing down around her.
Cameron is immediately sent to pray away her “same-sex attraction” at God’s Promise, an evangelical conversion therapy camp, where she’s forced to wrestle with her identity and sexual orientation among a group of similarly stranded youths. After making a real connec- tion with fellow campers Jane Fonda (Sasha Lane, American Honey; Hearts Beat Loud) and Adam Red Eagle (Forrest Goodluck, Indian Horse; The Revenant) and seeing some of the devastating effects of the camp’s program on others, Cameron is forced to question the legitimacy of the camp’s dogmatic teachings and decide for herself who she really is.
Winner of the US Grand Jury Prize for best dramatic feature at Sundance, The Miseducation of Cameron Post deftly explores how identities, families, and communities are intertwined through its stellar cast of up-and-coming actors and Desiree Akhavan’s skilled and thoughtful direction.
“Chloë Grace Moretz puts in a career-best turn as a teen sent to ‘pray away the gay’ at a Christian camp in Desiree Akhavan’s compassionate LGBT story.”
– Jordan Hoffman, The Guardian
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