Resident Magazine NY OCTOBER 2018 JOY CORRIGAN

caretaker of an abandoned toddler, Zain makes the desperate move of suing his negligent parents for giving him life and trapping him in a hostile world. sonyclassics.com/capernaum BOY ERASED Boy Erased is a coming-of-age drama film based on Garrard Conley’s memoir, titled Boy Erased: A Memoir. It is written and directed by Joel Edgerton, who also produces with Steve Golin and Kerry Kohansky Roberts. The film stars Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe, and Edgerton, and follows the son of Baptist parents who is forced to take part in a gay conversion therapy program. focusfeatures.com/boy-erased FIRST MAN First Man is a biographical drama film directed by Damien Chazelle and written by Josh Singer, based on the book First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong

by James R. Hansen. The film stars Ryan Gosling as Neil Armstrong, alongside Jason Clarke, Claire Foy, Kyle Chandler, Corey Stoll, Ciarán Hinds, Christopher Abbott, Patrick Fugit, and Lukas Haas, and follows the years leading up to the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon in 1969. East Hampton local Steven Spielberg is an executive producer. firstman.com BEAUTIFUL BOY Beautiful Boy is a biographical drama film directed

by Felix Van Groeningen, in his English-language feature debut. The screenplay, written by Luke Davies and Van Groeningen, is based on the memoirs Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction by David Sheff and Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines by Nic Sheff. It stars Steve Carell, Timothée Chalamet, Maura Tierney and Amy Ryan, and deals with the strained relationship between a father and his teenage son. beautifulboy.movie DIVIDE AND CONQUER: THE STORY OF ROGER AILES Looking at the legacy of the man who was both the leading strategist behind the election of numerous Republican presidents and one of the first largerthan-life figures to be removed from power by accusations of sexual misconduct, filmmaker Alexis Bloom sheds light on the multitude of ways in which the story of Roger Ailes’s rise to power reflects the story of the modern Republican party, as well as the disquieting history of abuse that followed it. aetv.com/indiefilms