“Boy Erased” quotes
(2019)
Joel Edgerton
directed this movie
in 2019
Title Boy Erased
Year 2019
Director Joel Edgerton
Genre Drama, Biography
Year 2019
Director Joel Edgerton
Genre Drama, Biography
Plot – The film tells the true story of the coming of age of Jared Eamons, his journey of acceptance of his homosexuality and his coming out. The protagonist is the son of a Baptist pastor in a small rural town of America, who at the age of 19 decides to be honest to his parents about his sexual preferences. Scared to lose his family, his friends and the church community he is a part of, Jared is talked into joining a conversion therapy program. While there, he starts a conflictual relationship with his therapist, and he finally starts a journey to find his own voice and accept his true self.
All actors – Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe, Madelyn Cline, Victor McCay, David Joseph Craig, Troye Sivan, Emily Hinkler, Devin Michael, Matt Burke, Lindsey Moser, Jesse LaTourette, Britton Sear, David Ditmore, William Ngo, Joel Edgerton, Xavier Dolan, Tim Ware, Flea, Randy Havens, Joe Alwyn, Matthew Eldridge, Naomi Nicole Smith, Frank Hoyt Taylor, Cherry Jones, Théodore Pellerin, Ron Clinton Smith, Jason Davis, Cindy Hogan, Shaye McDonald, Blake Burgess, Michael King, Lynne Ashe, Claire Allen, Andrea Sibley, Christopher B. Forster, Josh Scherer, Drew Scheid, Machai Smith-Bailey, Malerie Grady, Paige Henry, Joy Jacobson, Will Kindrachuk, Kevin Linehan, Jesse Malinowski, Frank Roberts, Brook Todd, , Fred Bobbitt, Madeline Brumby, Laura Distin, Morgan Jon Fox, Sharon Frank, Ben Hammock, Thomas Mark Higgins, Kyle Jackson, Jay D. Kacho, Perla Middleton, Daniel Parish, Mason Pike, Agustin Reiter, Joey Renfroe, Henardo Rodriguez, Kimberly Shires, Ivy Smith, Jessica Dawson Strong, Samantha Updike, Amanda Marie Wilkinson
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“Now, I’m going to tell you something that’s going to make you immediately feel a little better. People tell you you can be born gay, that’s not true. You cannot be born a homosexual, this is a lie. Now, I’m a counselor and a pastor, but was I born that way? No. It’s behavioral. It’s a choice.”
“I think we're our own God. I mean, I think he's in us. In all of us, not, you know, somewhere hiding and watching.”
“Fake it till you make it. Become the man you are not.”
“- Marshall Eamons: You know, Jared, as far as I can tell, we’ve only got one God-given right, that is when a man and a woman come together, they may create life. You think how much God must love mankind to give us that awesome responsibility.
- Jared Eamons: Dad, it’s really not true.”“I’m a religious woman, there’s no question, but I have also been to medical school. And, well, you can say that I hold science in one hand and God in the other, and that is not always an easy balance.”
“I love God. God loves me. I love my son. That's it. I think for your father it's a little bit more complicated.”
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