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THE MISEDUCATION OF CAMERON POST

By Desiree AKHAVAN

Drama - Completed 2018

Festivals
& Awards

Sundance Film Festival 2018

U.S. Dramatic Competition

Karlovy Vary IFF 2018

Horizons

Sundance 2018

Grand Jury Prize

IndieBelgrade Film Festival 2018

Best Film

- Year of production
- 2018
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
- Countries
- USA
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Duration
- 103 mn
- Director(s)
- Desiree AKHAVAN
- Writer(s)
- Desiree AKHAVAN, Cecilia FRUGIUELE
- Cast
- Chloe Grace MORETZ, Sasha LANE, Forrest GOODLUCK, John GALLAGHER JR, Jennifer EHLE
- Producer(s)
- Michael B. CLARK (BEACHSIDE FILMS), Alex TURTLETAUB (BEACHSIDE FILMS), Cecilia FRUGIUELE (PARKVILLE PICTURES), Olivier KAEMPFER (PARKVILLE PICTURES)
- Synopsis
- When Cameron Post (Chloë Grace Moretz) loses her parents in a car accident she’s left with a sense of guilt and relief because their deaths mean they’ll never learn that she’s gay. Years later (1993) 16-year-old Cameron is living with her born-again Evangelical aunt while (secretly) sleeping with the prom queen. When the girls are caught in the back of her boyfriend’s car, Cameron’s sent to to God’s Promise, a conversion therapy center where teens are “cured” of their homosexual attractions. It’s in this surreal setting that she finds her place among two fellow sinners, Jane (Sasha Lane) and Adam (Forrest Goodluck) who introduce her to the pleasures of normal teen life. She even opens herself up to the possibility of change until one of her classmates has a breakdown and she comes face to face with the cost of brainwashing yourself into denying your identity and fighting against your every urge. It’s then that she, Jane and Adam realize their best hope for “salvation” is to escape.