‘Mama’s Boy’ Documentary Adapted From Dustin Lance Black Memoir Gets HBO Premiere Date
deadline.comUPDATED, 2:15 PM: HBO will premiere documentary Mama’s Boy, a feature adaptation of the 2019 memoir by Oscar-winning Milk scribe Dustin Lance Black, on Tuesday, October 18 at 9 PM ET/PT.
Laurent Bouzereau directs the film, which hails from LD Entertainment, Ambin Television and Playtone, in association with Nedland Media.The film, which centers around Black’s upbringing, features interviews with Black, members of Black’s extended family; Black’s husband, Olympic gold medalist Tom Daley; filmmaker Paris Barclay; former president of the Human Rights Campaign, Chad Griffin; and executive director of Equality Utah, Troy Williams.Mama’s Boy is produced by Mickey Liddell, Pete Shilaimon, Steven Shareshian, Darryl Frank, Justin Falvey; executive produced by Gary Goetzman, Michael Glassman, Beau Ward, Mehrdod Heydari, Laurent Bouzereau and Markus Keith.The film will debut on HBO and be available to stream on HBO Max.PREVIOUS EXCLUSIVE: Amblin TV and Playtone have partnered with LD Entertainment to produce a feature documentary adaptation of Mama’s Boy: A Story from Our Americas, based on the 2019 memoir by Oscar-winning Milk scribe Dustin Lance Black.Deadline first revealed the docu when it was acquired by director/author Laurent Bouzereau as he was coming off the docus Five Came Back and Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind.Black’s memoir tells the origin story of himself and his mother Anne, a conservative Mormon woman from the American South – Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas.
As a child, she contracted polio, which forced her to endure brutal surgeries and leaving her reliant on braces and crutches for the rest of her life, but taught her the strength of a family’s love.
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