The tortuous turmoil of Garrard Conley’s “homosexual conversion” therapy ordeal is chronicled in filmmaker Joel Edgerton’s respectful drama. After struggling with sexual insecurities for years, 19-year-old Jared Conley Eamons (Lucas Hedges) was outed as gay to his devout, conservative Southern Baptist parents (Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe). “Do you swear to God you’re not gay?” his stern Arkansas pastor father asks him. “No, I can’t do that,” Jared confesses. “Because I do have those feelings.” At his parents’ insistence, Jared begins conversion therapy at the Love in Action ministry detention facility, where sinister therapist Victor Sykes (Edgerton) claims that sexuality is a choice that is influenced by poor parenting. He urges attendees to embark on secretive “moral inventories” of themselves and their families. During indoctrination, flashbacks reveal that Jared had disturbing homosexual encounters during his freshman year in college. And there’s a cruel ordeal as another young man, Cameron (Britton Sear), is openly humiliated by Sykes, forcibly dunked in a bathtub, subjected to a fake funeral, and beaten with bibles by therapists and his own family. Knowing he’s next, Jared defiantly phones his protective mother to take him home. Soon after, Jared discovers that Cameron committed suicide. Based on Conley’s revelatory 2016 memoir, this is sensitively adapted by writer-director-actor Edgerton, who tackles a timely and controversial issue with admirable, if also understated, emotional depth. Pop star Troye Sivan and Canadian auteur Xavier Dolan appear in strategic supporting parts. Recommended. [Note: DVD/Blu-ray extras include deleted and extended scenes (33 min.), and the production segments “Becoming the Eamons” (6 min.), “Man Consumed: Joel Edgerton” on the director (5 min.), and “Jared Revealed” (3 min.). Exclusive to the Blu-ray release is a bonus digital copy of the film. Bottom line: a solid extras package for this compelling adaptation of a haunting memoir.] (S. Granger)