“Boy, Erased” (*** out of four) was a powerfully affecting story of the son (Lucas Hedges) of a religious family (Russell Crowe and Nicole Kidman) who realizes he is gay and is then forced to participate in a church-supported gay conversion program run by an unsympathetic preacher (Joel Edgerton) which leads to him further questioning his religious, familial, and personal identity in life. Director and co-star Joel Edgerton audaciously tells his story without pulling any punches and puts you right there center with the young man and his moral and emotional crossroads in life. Perhaps goes too far at times (and too long) but this is one of the rare films about homosexuality that does not cop out and is exceeded by a uniformly strong cast.