Tag: Lucas Hedges
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“Ben Is Back”: Julia Roberts Proves That a Determined Mom Is Jesus to a Troubled Child
When Jesus can’t moms save, that is the moral behind Ben Is Back, a harrowing and heartbreaking addiction recovery drama about a mother and son’s (Julia Roberts and Lucas Hedges) Christmas Eve journey through a hell scape of past narcotic sins, betrayals, victims of the son’s abuses and criminal connections that leads to a tormented…
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“Boy Erased”: Loving and Hating Via Misunderstanding
In Boy Erased, a gay conversion drama directed by Joel Edgerton, there is a lot of parental love mixed in with misunderstanding. To their credit the parents (Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe) of Jared Eamons (Lucas Hedges) don’t react by shunning but love that seeks wise counsel in men whose misguided faith and narrow view…