![]() ![]() There’s no physical abuse at God’s Promise, but Cam and her friends are told again and again by the staff - Reverend Rick (John Gallagher Jr.) and Dr. Sent away to a program in the woods, Cam and her friends are trapped in a literal and figurative wilderness. The film captures the aching loneliness of being young, queer and confused - a story that’s still too rarely told. ![]() Slated for an August release, The Miseducation of Cameron Post has already won big at Sundance, where it took home the Grand Jury Prize, and just played at the Tribeca Film Festival. There, isolated in the woods, in the Internet-less early 1990s, Cam and her friends Jane and Adam - played by Sasha Lane and Forrest Goodluck, respectively - contemplate the desires that got them shipped off to God’s Promise, where they are subjected to the mental horrors of what’s now known as conversion therapy. ![]() God’s Promise is a sort-of evangelical summer camp-cum-boarding school for kids who are “struggling with same-sex desire,” as the school’s misguided leadership puts it. In the new film The Miseducation of Cameron Post, the titular main character, Cam, played with teenage apathy and fragility by Chloë Grace Moretz, gets caught fooling around with a friend and quickly finds herself at God’s Promise. ![]()
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