--- title: Shia LaBeouf Exorcizes, Makes Peace With Demon in Honey Boy description: 'Honey Boy,' written by and starring Shia LaBeouf and based on his own life as a child performer, is entertaining and wrenching. canonical: https://time.com/5720743/shia-labeouf-honey-boy-review/ author: Stephanie Zacharek article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-11-07T11:21:17.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-12T20:47:50.000Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Shia LaBeouf Exorcizes a Demon in 'Honey Boy'—Then Makes Peace With It og:description: LaBeouf wrote the script for 'Honey Boy' during his time in a court-mandated rehab for substance abuse og:url: https://time.com/5720743/shia-labeouf-honey-boy-review/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt96135433642e386c/698a0568096a94b7bc6a73b5/shia-labeouf-honey-boy-review.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Shia LaBeouf Honey Boy Review og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Shia LaBeouf Exorcizes a Demon in 'Honey Boy'—Then Makes Peace With It twitter:description: LaBeouf wrote the script for 'Honey Boy' during his time in a court-mandated rehab for substance abuse twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt96135433642e386c/698a0568096a94b7bc6a73b5/shia-labeouf-honey-boy-review.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Shia LaBeouf Exorcizes a Demon in _Honey Boy_—Then Makes Peace With It > Sponsored content. 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How is the audience supposed to know how to react to them? If you don’t buy the kid’s suffering, you just feel heartless, as if someone has spilled his deepest secrets and all you can muster is a shrug. But _Honey Boy_, written by and starring [Shia LaBeouf](https://time.com/4503609/shia-labeouf-weird-behavior-timeline/) and based on his own life as a child performer, never paints its audience into that corner. LaBeouf wrote the script during his time in court-mandated rehab for substance abuse, following a 2017 arrest. The director, a documentarian making her feature debut, is Alma Har’el. LaBeouf emailed her a draft of the script from rehab, as if sending out a message in a bottle. The film the two have made together is entertaining and wrenching. LaBeouf’s stand-in character is Otis, whom we first meet as an adult, played by [Lucas Hedges](https://time.com/5434329/lucas-hedges-boy-erased-review/). He’s a Famous Actor, cocky and overbearing but also a model of proficiency when the cameras are rolling. Yet he’s lost when they stop: he drinks, he drives, he does crazy stuff. During a drunken spree, he crashes a car and talks back to the arresting officer. Soon he’s in rehab. It’s there that a psychologist (Laura San Giacomo) urges him to revisit his childhood, and as the details of his life as a child actor emerge in flashback, you begin to understand why he’s not just an alcoholic but also kind of a jerk: the young Otis (played, by Noah Jupe, with just the right amount of precociousness) is being raised in a depressing housing complex by his father James (LaBeouf), a former rodeo clown with a receding hairline and low self-esteem. What makes _Honey Boy_ work is that Otis never wallows in his circumstances; like many kids raised in abusive households, he becomes a caretaker of sorts, intuiting that in the end he’ll be O.K. But it’s LaBeouf’s performance as his father that haunts the movie. He’s hateful, but even within the context of this upbringing-as-horror-show, LaBeouf locates crystalline reflections of the better man his father might have been. His performance both exorcises a demon and makes peace with it, which may be a better gift than his father deserves. But then, it’s the giving that counts. _Honey Boy opens in theaters Nov. 8_ **Correction, Nov. 7** _The original version of this story misstated the actor who plays the_ _psychologist_. _It is Laura San Giacomo, not Linda Fiorentino._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5720743/shia-labeouf-honey-boy-review/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5720743/shia-labeouf-honey-boy-review/"},"headline":"Shia LaBeouf Exorcizes a Demon in Honey Boy—Then Makes Peace With It","datePublished":"2019-11-07T11:21:17.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-12T20:47:50.000Z","description":"'Honey Boy,' written by and starring Shia LaBeouf and based on his own life as a child performer, is entertaining and wrenching.","url":"https://time.com/5720743/shia-labeouf-honey-boy-review/","keywords":["movies"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt96135433642e386c/698a0568096a94b7bc6a73b5/shia-labeouf-honey-boy-review.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Stephanie Zacharek","jobTitle":"Film Critic","url":"https://time.com/author/stephanie-zacharek/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt96135433642e386c/698a0568096a94b7bc6a73b5/shia-labeouf-honey-boy-review.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Shia LaBeouf Honey Boy Review","caption":"Still from Honey Boy by Amazon Studios","creditText":"Amazon Studios","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5720743/shia-labeouf-honey-boy-review/","name":"Shia LaBeouf Exorcizes a Demon in Honey Boy—Then Makes Peace With It"}}]}] ```