HONEY BOY 
Tuesday 12 March 2020 at 2.30pm and 7.30pm
For documentarian Alma Har’el’s (Bombay Beach, LoveTrue) first fiction feature Honey Boy she collaborated with actor and performance artist Shia LaBeouf, working from his original autobiographical screenplay. Written in part as a therapeutic exercise during a stint in rehab, the film depicts LaBeouf’s intense, chaotic relationship with his father from childhood to young adulthood, lightly fictionalised with characters renamed.
Noah Jupe and Lucas Hedges (Manchester by the Sea) play child actor Otis Lort as he rises from early success to self-destructive Hollywood star, with LaBeouf taking on the challenge of playing a version of his own father, an ex-rodeo clown and a felon.
“To say Honey Boy is one big therapy session is to do it a disservice — it’s much better than that… this is an utterly unique bit of autobiography. Brave, bold, and a little batshit.” Empire
2019 | Dir Alma Har’el | 93min | 
USA
The programme will also include our current BRIT School Showcase film Seeing Double (12A, 3 min), an eerie Year 12 short directed by Mitchell Bradshaw.
Ticket Prices: £8.00 (Standard), £6.50 (Concessions), £5.00 (25 and under).
As the son of a small-town pastor, Jarod has a particularly hard time when he is outed to his parents. Pressured to undergo gay conversion therapy, he rebels against the programme and discovers his own voice. Manchester by the Sea and Lady Bird co-star Hedges shines in the lead role, while Kidman and Crowe bring great depth as the parents forced to weigh deeply held beliefs against their love for their son.
