Set in the year 1993, Cameron Post (Chloe Grace Moretz) is a high school junior. She lives with her Aunt Ruth (Kerry Butler) ever since her parents died. She attends Bible study and makes out with her best friend Coley (Quinn Shepherd) after school. At the homecoming dance, Cameron and Coley sneak into their car, smoke weed, and start having sex… but Cameron’s homecoming date Jamie discovers them. Ruth finds out, presumably from Jamie, and distraught, decides to send Cameron to “God’s Promise,” a religious gay conversion camp for young people who “struggle with same-sex attraction.”
Cameron meets the cheerful Reverend Rick (John Gallagher Jr.) who introduces her to her room and her roommate, Erin (Emily Skeggs), whose side of the room is decorated with Minnesota Vikings paraphernalia. He explains she will get decorating and mail privileges later on. He checks her bag, removing a cassette tape she brought, and makes her sign her contract with the facility. The students are known as “disciples.”
That night, Cameron dreams of the first time she had sex with Coley but is awoken by the staff’s nightly flashlight checks into the room to make sure the disciples are in their rooms. The next day, Erin shows Cameron around the lunchroom and tells her about the other students. Erin is peppy and genuinely believes that God’s Promise can fix her. She explains that Reverend Rick once too experienced same-sex attractions, but overcame them. On her first day of class, the director of the camp, Dr. Lydia Marsh (Jennifer Ehle) introduces herself to Cameron, welcoming her to God’s Promise.
Cameron goes for a run every morning, and one morning spies two other disciples, Adam (Forrest Goodluck) and Jane (Sasha Lane) sneaking into a cellar and smoking weed. Later, she has her first counseling session with Rick and Lydia. They give her a drawing of an iceberg, explaining that the same-sex attraction is the tip, but they need to examine the reasons underneath.
They ask her to fill her iceberg out, and she goes and looks at the icebergs of other students, learning about how they ended up at God’s Promise. Jane, a free spirit, catches her looking at hers, and tells Cameron to write whatever she thinks they want to hear. Cameron tells her she saw Jane and Adam smoking and asks where she got the weed. Jane tells her she grows it herself and invites her to join them sometime.
While on a field trip, Cameron sees Jane steal a music cassette, and briefly decides to do the same – until she sees Erin spot her briefly. She puts the cassette back, but Erin insists on telling the adults, insisting she is doing it for Cameron’s own good, trying to help her fight sin. Another disciple, Mark (Owen Campbell), helps convince Erin not to say anything and to keep it between them all.
Erin begrudgingly agrees, and Cameron thanks Mark. Cameron begins hanging out with Adam and Jane regularly, going on long hikes. They share stories of their pasts, and Cameron wonders why they don’t just leave. They explain that since their families sent them there, they have nowhere else to go – it’s God’s Promise or be on the streets. They also tell Cameron that Lydia is Rick’s sister – she used to be a regular therapist until Rick became her patient zero. They ask Cameron about Coley, and Jane thinks it’s unfair that Cameron is punished while nothing happened to Coley, but Cameron defends her.
The Miseducation of Cameron Post is a 2018 American-British drama film directed by Desiree Akhavan, from a screenplay by Akhavan and Cecilia Frugiuele, based upon the 2012 novel of the same name by Emily M. Danforth. It stars Chloë Grace Moretz, John Gallagher, Jr., Sasha Lane, Forrest Goodluck, Marin Ireland, Owen Campbell, Kerry Butler, Quinn Shephard, Emily Skeggs, Melanie Ehrlich, and Jennifer Ehle.
The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 22, 2018. It was released in the United States on August 3, 2018 by FilmRise, and United Kingdom on September 7, 2018, by Vertigo Releasing. It received positive reviews and has grossed $1.4 million worldwide.
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The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018)
Directed by: Desiree Akhavan
Starring: Chloe Grace Moretz, Sasha Lane, John Gallagher Jr, Quinn Shephard, Kerry Butler, Dale Soules, Dalton Harrod, Melanie Ehrlich, Christopher Dylan White, Owen Campbell
Screenplay by: Desiree Akhavan, Cecilia Frugiuele
Production Design by: Markus Kirschner
Cinematography by: Ashley Connor
Film Editing by: Sara Shaw
Costume Design by: Stacey Berman
Set Decoration by: John Arnos, Erin Blake
Art Direction by: Tori Lancaster
Music by: Julian Wass
Distributed by: FilmRise, Vertigo Releasing
Release Date: August 3, 2018 (United States), September 7, 2018 (United Kingdom)
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