![]() ![]() When they get caught together, Cameron is sent away to God’s Promise, a boarding school that promises to “cure” her through therapy and prayer. Cameron, an 11th-grader played by Chloë Grace Moretz, is secretly involved with a girl named Coley (Quinn Shephard). ![]() The denial of the truth about adolescent sexuality - specifically what some of the characters delicately refer to as “SSA” (for “same-sex attraction”) - happens to be the film’s subject. The Motion Picture Association of America has a habit of using the R rating to shoo teenagers away from realistic depictions of their own lives, a prohibition that is easy enough to get around in the age of digital streaming but that nonetheless serves as an official endorsement of evasion and repression. Based on a young-adult novel by Emily Danforth, the film arrives in theaters without a rating, which is probably just as well. ![]() Navigating troubled culture-war waters with grace, humor and compassion, “The Miseducation of Cameron Post” is a movie that deserves a wide and diverse audience. ![]()
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