How Shia LaBeouf confronts his troubled relationship with his father in 'Honey Boy'

It seems pretty complicated, but also kind of not.

Here's what's not complicated - Shia LaBeouf wrote and costarred in the raw, emotional movie "Honey Boy." Directed by Alma Har'el, making her fiction feature debut, the movie won a special jury award for vision and craft when it premiered this year at the Sundance Film Festival. The picture opened Friday to strong reviews and earned $288,824 in four locations for one of the highest per-screen averages of the year.

Now for the complicated part - LaBeouf plays a role based on his own father, a former rodeo clown who saw his son shoot to stardom as a child actor. Noah Jupe plays Otis Lort, the "Honey Boy" version of young Shia, while Lucas Hedges plays a slightly older Otis after he has become an action star and bounces into rehab following a few brushes with the law. The complex, dysfunctional dynamic between father and