Shia LaBeouf wrote Honey Boy and played his own father, although it might not have been accurate.

Alma Ha'rel releases statement after her Honey Boy leads get involved in litigation.

Alma Ha'rel releases statement after her Honey Boy leads get involved in litigation.

Shia LaBeouf's autobiographical Honey Boy carries several direct parallels to the actor's own celebrity life. Here are just a few examples.

Honey Boy director, Alma Har'el, took to Twitter to slam the Golden Globes for not including any female filmmakers in their Best Director category.

That's one way of getting the job done.

Amazon Studios released its second trailer for Honey Boy today, a day after the film received four Film Independent Spirit Award nominations. The semi-autobiographical story written by Shia LaBeouf, garnered the actor a Best Supporting Male nomination. Noah Jupe, playing the title character as a child, received a nod in the same category. It also picked up nominations for Best Director (Alma Har’el) and Best Cinematography (Natasha Braier). This second trailer goes a bit deeper into the complex relationship between LaBeouf’s James Lort and his son Otis, played by Jupe (age 12) and Lucas Hedges (age 22). …

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This is a re-post of my Honey Boy review from the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. The film is now playing in limited release. We as a viewing public know a lot about Shia LaBeouf—or at least we think we do. He broke out, of course, as a child actor on the Disney Channel series Even Stevens, and after a couple of scene-stealing supporting roles he proved more than capable of being a leading man with Disturbia. He graduated to franchise frontman with Transformers, but the popularity of that blockbuster series also coincided with public incidents involving altercations, …

Shia LaBeouf's Honey Boy is a true story of his childhood and relationship with his father, but how accurate is its portrayal? What actually happened?

Shia LaBeouf's autobiographical indie film is a heavy but engaging watch.

Amazon Studios has released the first trailers for the upcoming autobiographical film Honey Boy. There’s both a red-band version and a green-band version of the film, which was written by Shia LaBeouf as a therapeutic exercise to work through issues stemming from his childhood. A Quiet Place breakout Noah Jupe plays the character of Otis Lort, a child actor working on an unnamed TV show (but it’s definitely Even Stevens) who lives with his hot-and-cold father in a motel. LaBeouf fills the role of Lort’s father, an overbearing man and former rodeo clown …

Shia LaBeouf plays his own father in the trailer for Honey Boy, a drama that LaBeouf wrote and was inspired by his real-life childhood.

We as a viewing public know a lot about Shia LaBeouf—or at least we think we do. He broke out, of course, as a child actor on the Disney Channel series Even Stevens, and after a couple of scene-stealing supporting roles he proved more than capable of being a leading man with Disturbia. He graduated to franchise frontman with Transformers, but the popularity of that blockbuster series also coincided with public incidents involving altercations, arrests, and rehab. With Honey Boy, a semi-autobiographical drama that plays out almost like a feature-length therapy session, LaBeouf aims to give …