The Miseducation of Cameron Post **** (2018, Chloë Grace Moretz, Steven Hauck, Quinn Shephard, Kerry Butler, Dalton Harrod, McCabe Slye, Dale Soules, Sasha Lane, John Gallagher Jr, Emily Skeggs, Marin Ireland, Forrest Goodluck) – Classic Movie Review 8932

Co-writer/director Desiree Akhavan’s earnest, sincere and intelligent 2018 drama The Miseducation of Cameron Post, based on novel by Emily M Danforth, is an excellent move in the right direction by Chloë Grace Moretz as a 1993 teenager is forced into a religious organised gay conversion therapy centre by her conservative guardians.

American emerges as a scary, bigoted, yet perhaps still hopeful place once more in an important movie discussing homosexuality in a mature, accessible, clearly understandable and sympathetic way. Chloë Grace Moretz gives a first rate performance as Cameron Post at the centre of it.

It won the 2018 U.S. Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, where it premiered on 22 January 2018. It was released in the UK on 7 September 2018.

Also in the cast are Steven Hauck, Quinn Shephard, Kerry Butler, Dalton Harrod, McCabe Slye, Dale Soules, Sasha Lane, John Gallagher Jr, Emily Skeggs, Marin Ireland, Forrest Goodluck, Melanie Ehrlich, Owen Campbell, and Christopher Dylan White.

Desiree Akhavan writes the screenplay with Cecilia Frugiuele.

It is made by Beachside Films and Parkville Pictures, and distributed by FilmRise (2018) (US) and Vertigo Releasing (2018) (UK).

It is one of two 2018 movies about teenagers forced to undergo LGBT conversion therapy, along with Boy Erased (2018). They would make a perfect double bill.

© Derek Winnert 2019 Classic Movie Review 8932

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