Jeremiah Terminator LeRoy
(2018)Based on her own memoir, the true story of a young woman (Kristen Stewart) who fooled the world portraying fake literary persona LT LeRoy.... More
JT LeRoy caused a stir in the 1990s, a gifted teen author who won praise for his semi-autobiographical accounts of emotional and sexual abuse and drug use. But LeRoy was actually the creation of Laura Albert (Laura Dern), a woman in her mid-30s who needed someone who could pass for the teenage boy in public. Enter her sister-in-law, Savannah Knoop (Stewart), who spent years masquerading as Albert's creation in front of an unaware world. Hide
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Directed by Justin Kelly ('Welcome the Stranger', 'King Cobra')
Starring Kristen Stewart, Laura Dern, Diane Kruger, Jim Sturgess, Courtney Love
Written by Justin Kelly, Savannah Knoop (based on the memoir 'Girl Boy Girl: How I Became JT Leroy' by Savannah Knoop)
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