Honey Boy

Honey Boy

sweet as honey.

201994 min7.0 / 10

A raw, intimate portrait of childhood trauma and the long struggle to reconcile with an abusive, addicted parent, grounded in autobiographical pain.

The story of a child star attempting to mend his relationship with his law-breaking, alcohol-abusing father over the course of a decade, loosely based on Shia LaBeouf’s life.

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