15 Recent Performances That Were Criminally Underrated

Honey Boy is a deeply personal film for Shia LaBeouf. He wrote the script for it himself. Two different versions of himself at different ages, played by Noah Jupe and Lucas Hedges, are his costars in the film.

He plays his own father in this film. While the names of the characters are different, and there have likely been some creative liberties taken, this is a movie about LaBeouf and his trauma. It is unimaginable how difficult it must be to portray your own abusive father in a movie about your own childhood.

However, LaBeouf does it with grace and talent. His father, an abusive man who was convicted of rape in his past, is by all means a terrible man. He is both physically and verbally abusive towards his son, and pretty neglectful too. Yet somehow, LaBeouf found it within himself to portray this man with sympathy.

The movie is about LaBeouf's real life journey through therapy, and it seems that making this film was therapeutic for him in a way too. While he has had his fair share of controversy in the past, the immense talent and dedication to his craft that he shows in this film are proof that LaBeouf should not be underestimated or discounted in the slightest.

He has had a rocky past, much of which is actually reflected in this film, but he has now proven that he also has a very promising future.