The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018)
Storyline
In 1993, teenager Cameron is sent to a gay conversion therapy center after getting caught with another girl in the back seat of a car on prom night. Run by the strict and severe Dr. Lydia Marsh and her brother, Reverend Rick, the center is built upon repenting for "same sex attraction." In the face of intolerance and denial, Cameron meets a group of fellow sinners including the amputee stoner Jane, and her friend, the Lakota Two-Spirit, Adam. Together, this group of teenagers form an unlikely family as they fight to survive.
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Cast
Jennifer Ehle, Marin Ireland, Chloë Grace Moretz, John Gallagher Jr., Spencer List, Andre B. Blake, Steven Hauck, Forrest Goodluck, Owen Campbell, Sasha Lane, Quinn Shephard, Dale Soules, Christopher Dylan White, Emily Skeggs, Kerry Butler, Melanie Ehrlich, Isaac Jin Solstein, Dalton Harrod, McCabe Slye, Nick Covell, Cerrone May, Joshua Thomas, Shelby L. Collete, Francesca Noel, Jack Dorado, Peter Heller, Christina Karabiyik, Chloe Roe, Joyce Hausermann, Seamus Boyle, Niko Rodriguez, Billy Brannigan, Anthony Krueger, Paul Evans, John Kruppa, Alexandra Imbrosci-Viera, Padraig Bond, Lauren Anderson, Morgan Camara, Phoebe Camara, Malachi Tunison, Anjelina King, Kim Emerson, Justin Stowell, Tanis Parenteau, Kalen Goodluck, Sheldon Raymore, Gabrielle Vassor, Gina DeLong, Debbie Vogel, Kat Gonzalez, Joseph K. Bevilacqua, Jeff Marocchi, Emily Bielagus, Sid Solomon, Reba Hasko, Jack Reilly, Justin Denis
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Reviews
100
This is a gripping and sad drama that puts a tremendous amount of faith in its performers and audience, and for all the emotion and tenderness in the rest of this year’s Sundance crop, this is the first film that left me a complete broken-down mess by the end.
90
Akhavan elicits finely layered performances from her cast. Moretz digs deeper than she has in years for a sensitive lead turn that harmonizes especially well with her co-stars.
90
Village Voice
In the end, Cameron Post is a damning indictment of institutional Christianity and adults who make it their mission to tamp down kids’ spirits in the name of God.
83
The Miseducation of Cameron Post is a small movie, far too modest and knowing to surrender to melodrama and apply cosmetic fixes to deep wounds...but it beautifully articulates the need for young people to realize the validity of who they are, and even more beautifully crystalizes the moment when that starts to happen.
80
Miseducation has a funny, breezy surface — even though tragedy predictably intervenes at one point — but Cameron’s wry sense of humour doesn’t diminish how warping these conversion centres are, slowly instilling in people the sense that they’re faulty.
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