Movie #1715 "The Miseducation of Cameron Post" was a movie I saw on Xfinity on demand (but it is also available as a dvd from netflix) , and it is the same subject as the Lucas Hedges' film earlier in 2018 entitled: "Boy Erased." Subject matter in both films is conversion therapy used to try to cure homosexuality --- both terribly unsuccessful. Both films pretty grim, but "Boy Erased" drew me in a bit more because the filmed focused on the various treatments that were used, so the audience could see how much these kids went through when they went to one of these camps.. I didn't get pulled in to the "Miseducation of Cameron Post" because we didn't see a lot of the therapy --- there was a lot of pushing the religion, which I didn't care for (neither did Cameron) --- This film is pretty grim throughout, but it does have a more hopeful ending in comparison to the other one. I'm a big fan of Chloe Grace Moretz and John Gallagher (from "Newsroom") and both are theatre actors and they are very strong in this film. The rest are more caricatures of kids you might see at a camp like this ---It was just okay ---- although it got the grand prize at Sundance in 2018, so critics liked it quite a lot. 3.5 out of 5 stars for me.
"THE MISEDUCATION OF CAMERON POST" 1 hour and 30 minutes
Teenager Cameron Post sees her life turn topsy-turvy when she's caught having sex with another girl on prom night and is packed off to a conversion-therapy facility to be "cured." Instead, she forms a bond with the two renegades in the group.
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