Boy Erased

(15A, 115mins)

Written and directed by Joel Edgerton, this slow-moving drama is based on a true story and explores the insanity of genderconversion therapy. Lucas Hedges plays Jared, the college-going son of an Arkansas Baptist minister (Russell Crowe) and his wife (Nicole Kidman), who is sent to the Love in Action therapy centre, run by Victor Sykes (Edgerton), a very persuasive therapist who may not have any qualifications, but browbeats his inmates into renouncing their sexuality. Boy Erased features some fine performances, but The Miseducation Of Cameron Post tackled the same subject far more imaginatively.