‘Honey Boy’ Film Review: Shia LaBeouf Pours Himself into Autobiographical Coming-of-Age Tale

In “Honey Boy,” Otis Lort (Noah Jupe, “A Quiet Place”) is a precocious child with two jobs: an actor and then, off set, a caretaker for his father James (Shia LaBeouf). Otis is 12. James, a former professional clown and recovering heroin addict, is an adult.

In the hands of others, it would be impossible to reserve judgement of this father-son dynamic. And yet for 92 minutes, director Alma Har’el (“Bombay Beach”), working from a script from LaBeouf, exhibits restraint. Consequently, we must as well.

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