Neither she nor any of the other kids want to be there and so act out in the way kids that age do, including considering running away from the camp. The TrailersĬameron is being pressured to join the God’s Promise group as the trailer opens, one we soon see is a gay conversion camp meant to repress and redirect sinful urges. The movie’s Sundance credentials are on display and overall this looks like a character-driven drama. Moretz is shown in extreme, softly-lit close-up on the poster, the orange-yellow of her face and hair contrasting with her greenish scarf. The story is based on the novel by Emily M. They bond and are determined to help each other through this terrible ordeal, each convinced they’re not sick and in no need of a cure. While there, Cameron meets the other teens who have been sent away for various reasons and transgressions.
They’re convinced her attraction to other girls is a deviant sickness to be cured. The first of two high-profile movies coming out this year about gay conversion camps, The Miseducation of Cameron Post stars Chloe Grace-Moretz as Cameron, a young woman sent to one such camp in 1993 by super-conservative fundamentalists.
