The first trailer for Joel Edgerton's emotional new film Boy Erased has dropped - and viewers are already reaching for the tissues.
Based on writer Garrard Conley’s 2016 memoir of the same name, the film explores the implications of 'gay conversion' therapy and living as a gay man within a religious family.
Directed by Edgerton, the film boasts an all-star Australian lineup including Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe and pop singer Troye Sivan.
“The film satisfies the dramatic and salacious stuff that interested me, but it also had an emotional resonance to it that I felt didn’t just make it a dark and nihilistic story,” Edgerton said in an interview with earlier this year.
He added: “Garrard’s story is so full of redemption.
"My approach and treatment of this story was that there were no villains, that everyone thought they were doing the right thing."
Kidman, who plays Conley's religious mother, said she tried to approach the role with empathy.
"The way in which she and her husband feel about putting [Garrard] into conversion therapy, I wanted that to come from a place of a mother thinking it’s the right thing to do," she said.
"Nothing that she did was vindictive, which is probably why they have such a strong relationship now."
The film is set for release in September.
You can watch the full trailer below:
