Oscar-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black left the LDS Church many years ago, and he’s not reluctant to criticize the faith. Nor does he hesitate to praise it in the new HBO documentary “Mama’s Boy.”
Screenwriter and director Dustin Lance Black, showrunner of the recent miniseries "Under the Banner of Heaven" and Oscar-winning screenwriter of the biographical drama "Milk," is the subject of a new documentary, "Mama's Boy," airing on HBO channels and streaming on HBO Max starting Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2022.
Here are six takeaways from The Salt Lake Tribune’s interview with Black, who won an Academy Award for best original screenplay for “Milk,” and who — along with his strong-willed mother — is the subject of the documentary.“I am who I am because I was raised Mormon,” he told The Tribune. “My sense that family comes first is something I learned from Mormonism. Granted, I might define family a little more broadly than many Mormons do in Utah these days, but I still think it comes first.
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