LaBeouf thought he was finished, then he wrote ‘Honey Boy’

NEW YORK (AP) — For even an actor known for performance-art stunts and public displays of painful self-examination, Shia LaBeouf’s “Honey Boy” is something else.
The film is about LaBeouf’s childhood relationship with his father, a former drug addict. LaBeouf wrote the film and plays his dad in it.
“Honey Boy” is radically autobiographical for such a well-known movie star. As therapy writ large, it’s a striking exercise in empathy in which LaBeouf