Honey Boyis getting an award worth release date after winning acclaim on the festival circuit. Shia LaBeouf has had a rough go of it over the past couple of years, constantly in the media spotlight, but never for the right reasons. He’s taken his life experiences as a child actor and turned them into an autobiographical cinematic experience that has been hailed by critics. Now fans of the actor curious to see what led the man down a darker path in Hollywood will get their chance.
Amazon Studios will release Alma Har’el’s critically acclaimedHoney Boyin select theaters on August 23, 2025 and will expand in the following weeks.Shia LaBeoufwrote and stars alongsideA Quiet Place’s NoahJupe and Academy Award and Golden Globe nominee Lucas Hedges. Har’el received the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Vision and Craft at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year.
From a screenplay by LaBeouf, based on his own experiences, award-winning filmmakerAlma Har’elbrings to life a young actor’s stormy childhood and early adult years as he struggles to reconcile with his father through cinema and dreams. Fictionalizing his childhood’s ascent to stardom, and subsequent adult crash-landing into rehab and recovery, Har’el casts Noah Jupe and Lucas Hedges as Otis Lort, navigating different stages in a frenetic career.
LaBeouf takes on the daring and therapeutic challenge of playing a version of his own father, an ex-rodeo clown and a felon. Artist and musician FKA twigs makes her feature-film debut, playing neighbor and kindred spirit to the younger Otis in their garden-court motel home. Har’el’s feature narrative debut is a one-of-a-kind collaboration between filmmaker and subject, exploring art as therapy and imagination as hope.
TheAmazon Studiosfilm is produced by Har’el, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, Daniela Taplin Lundberg, Anita Gou and Christopher Leggett. Executive Producers are Fred Berger, Rafael Marmor, Daniel Crown and Bill Benenson.Honey Boyis produced by Automatik and Delirio, in association with Stay Gold Features, Kindred Spirit and Red Crown Productions.
Amazon Studios will release Ritesh Batra’sPhotographon May 17, Nisha Ganatra’sLate Nightnationwide in theaters on June 7, Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang’sOne Child Nationon August 9, and Paul Downs Colaizzo’sBrittany Runs a Marathonon August 23. Additional titles this year include Scott Z. Burns’The Reportstarring Adam Driver, Annette Bening and Jon Hamm, Tom Harper’sThe Aeronautsstarring Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones, Bert & Bertie’sTroop Zerostarring Viola Davis, Allison Janney and Mckenna Grace, and Benedict Andrews’Against All Enemiesstarring Kristen Stewart, Jack O’Connell and Anthony Mackie. You can learn more about the movie atHoney Boy’s official Facebook.
