A queer empowerment story set at a gay conversion camp.
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Release Date:
Friday, August 5, 2022 Peacock
Plot: What's the story about?
Kevin Bacon plays Owen Whistler in this slasher horror film set at an LGBTQIA+ conversion camp. Several queer and trans campers join Whistler for a week of programming intended to "help them find a new sense of freedom". As the camp's methods become increasingly more psychologically unsettling, the campers must work together to protect themselves. When a mysterious killer starts claiming victims, things get even more dangerous.
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Who stars in They/Them: Cast List
The Toxic Avenger, The Best You Can
Bride Hard, The Good Guy
To the Bone, The Holdovers
The Greatest Hits, Tankhouse
Looks That Kill
Black Phone 2, Final Destination: Bloodlines
Swallowed, Artificial
Who's making They/Them: Crew List
A look at the They/Them behind-the-scenes crew and production team. The film's writer John Logan last wrote Genius and Spectre.
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Production: What we know about They/Them?
Key Facts
- Anna Lore (she/her) plays Kim, a closeted lesbian camper who puts on a perfectly crafted front for her family and friends, assuming that when she fits in, she'll finally be loved.
- Monique Kim (she/her) plays Veronica, a bisexual camper who wants to stop fighting who she really is.
- Austin Crute (he/him) plays Toby, a gay camper who negotiated with his parents for a trip to New York in exchange for a week at Whistler Camp.
- Theo Germaine (they/them) plays Jordan, a transgender and non-binary camper from a religious background who has made a deal with their parents to legally emancipate if attending Whistler doesn't "work." Quei Tann (she/her) plays Alexandra, a transgender woman whose parents have threatened to kick her out of the house if she didn't attend the camp.
- Carrie Preston (she/her) plays Cora Whistler, a licensed therapist in charge of the campers' therapy sessions, and the wife of camp director Owen Whistler.
- Anna Chlumsky (she/her) plays Molly, the camp's medic and newest employee.
- Kevin Bacon (he/him) plays Owen Whistler, the conversion camp director who runs Whistler Camp alongside several counselors including his wife, Cora.
- · "THEY/THEM has been germinating within me my whole life. I've loved horror movies as long as I can remember, I think because monsters represent 'the other' and as gay kid I felt a powerful sense of kinship with those characters who were different, outlawed, or forbidden," said writer and director, John Logan. "I wanted to make a movie that celebrates queerness, with characters that I never saw when I was growing up. When people walk away from the movie, I hope they're going to remember the incredible love that these kids have for each other and how that love needs to be protected and celebrated (5/16/2022)."
- The film is created, written, and directed by three-time Oscar nominated screenwriter John Logan (Skyfall, Gladiator, The Aviator), marking his directorial debut and serving as an executive producer on the film (5/16/2022).
Filming Timeline
- 2022 - May: The film was set to Completed status.
They/Them Release Date: When was the film released?
Rent / BuyThey/Them was a peacock release in 2022 on Friday, August 5, 2022. There were 18 other movies released on the same date, including Bullet Train, Easter Sunday and Bodies Bodies Bodies.
