Lucas Hedges Struggles Through Gay Conversion Therapy In Boy Erased Trailer

If Oscars were awarded to trailers, then I'd give each person in the opening look at Boy Erased a toned statuette for making me feel every emotion imaginable in much less than three minutes. Don't believe me? Just watch for yourself:

Based on Garrard Conley's memoir and starring Lucas Hedges, Boy Erased follows the teen son of a Baptist pastor in the aftermath of being outed to his parents (played by Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe). He's faced with a ultimatum: attend a conversion therapy program – or be permanently exiled from his family member and faith. In a task to fix his fractured relationship with his father, Jared enrolls in conversion therapy, where he ultimately clashes with the treatment center's head therapist (played by writer-director Joel Edgerton).

According to Edgerton the film is an intimate look at one family member, however its themes highlight the larger systemic issues of homophobia and discrimination. "You get to walk into the living room of one family's life and visualize the destructive nature of judgement and suggestion the director told MTV News earlier this year. "That hopefully speaks to the bigger political characteristic

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Judging from the trailer, which as a new original song from openly gay pop artist Troye Sivan — also appearing in the film as another teen in the program — Boy Erased looks like an early awards season contender. Between this and Timothée Chalamet's performance in Beautiful Boy, 2018 is shaping up to be a showdown between Hollywood's newly minted golden men. Which film forces you to lose more tears? Only time will tell.

Boy Erased also stars Cherry Jones, Michael "Flea" Balzary, Xavier Dolan, Joe Alwyn, and Britton Sear. The film will hit select theaters on November 2, 2018.