BEGIN SLIDESHOW Joel Edgerton’s Boy Erased trailer debuts Focus Features has released the official trailer for the coming-of-age and coming-out drama, Boy Erased. The movie comes from writer/director Joel Edgerton (The Gift) and is based on Boy Erased: A Memoir of Identity, Faith, and Family by Garrard Conley. Check out the trailer for the film in the player below, starring Academy Award nominee Lucas Hedges (Manchester by the Sea) and Academy Award winners Russell Crowe (Gladiator) and Nicole Kidman (The Hours). Boy Erased tells the story of Jared (Hedges), the son of a Baptist pastor in a small American town, who is outed to his parents (Kidman and Crowe) at age 19.