Nominated for 4 Film
Independent Spirit Awards, including Best Director (Alma Har’el), Best
Supporting Male (Shia LaBeouf and Noah Jupe) and Best Cinematography (Natasha
Braier)
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Directed By
Alma Har’el
Screenplay By
Shia LaBeouf
Starring
Shia LaBeouf, Lucas
Hedges, Noah Jupe and FKA twigs
From a screenplay by Shia
LaBeouf, based on his own experiences, award-winning filmmaker Alma Har’el
brings to life a young actor’s stormy childhood and early adult years as he
struggles to reconcile with his father through cinema and dreams.
Fictionalizing his childhood’s ascent to stardom, and subsequent adult
crash-landing into rehab and recovery, Har’el casts Noah Jupe and Lucas Hedges
as Otis Lort, navigating different stages in a frenetic career. LaBeouf takes
on the daring and therapeutic challenge of playing a version of his own father,
an ex-rodeo clown and a felon. Artist and musician FKA twigs makes her
feature-film debut, playing neighbor and kindred spirit to the younger Otis in
their garden-court motel home. Har’el’s feature narrative debut is a
one-of-a-kind collaboration between filmmaker and subject, exploring art as
therapy and imagination as hope.
