Shia LaBeouf is no stranger to public self-reflection. In 2012 it was his being the lone observer of a performance specifically dedicated to implying his purported underlying cannibalistic tendencies. Now, he shows us the story that made a young actor into the polarizing pop culture sensation in his latest feature, Honey Boy. What’s more impressive is LaBeouf’s unbiased recounting of the events preceding his time in rehab. It is during this time that the character based upon LaBeouf, Otis Lort, is given the space to explore his alcoholism and how it is tied to his childhood growing up in the spotlight with a contentious relationship to his father.
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