Honey Boy is the kind of film that hurts to watch, and that's entirely the point. Shia LaBeouf's brutal act of therapy on screen is a tight and emotional exercise that's really just as much about what it doesn't include as what it does. Directed by Alma Har'el, the autobiographical indie flick centers on a young actor called Otis who acts as the film's analog for Shia; it even opens with a Transformers-esque action shot. Otis is played as an adult by the wonderful and frenetic Lucas Hedges who shines as the traumatized star, and as a child by the astounding Noah Jupe. LaBeouf himself does a harrowingly good job as his own father, here known as James.
As with any (auto)biographical film, the biggest question that surrounds it is how much really happened. Well, just like in real life Otis is a child star who lives in a motel with his ex-rodeo clown dad whilst shooting a kids' TV series. This is pretty much exactly the story of LaBeouf's early days in Hollywood whilst starring in Even Stevens. This authenticity and apparent honesty are at the heart of what makes Honey Boy special. From the outset the story seems dedicated to being uncomfortably real with Otis' hard-living Hollywood lifestyle, ending with him in rehab before the credits have even rolled. It was this real-life stint that led the actor to create Honey Boy as a rehab-mandated form of catharsis and to that end, it seems incredibly successful. LaBeouf spills his proverbial guts on the page, sharing some of the most terrible and intimate traumas of his life, not just as a writer but as an actor relieving his abuser impact on screen.
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