A teenage cheerleader is sent off to a camp called True Directions because her parents suspect she might be a lesbian and they want her straightened out. I'm now informed that such places really exist. That took a lot of the fun out of it for me. It sounded so ridiculous that the concept alone was good for a few giggles. Now that I know such places aren't imaginary it just seems sad.
Fact is often stranger than fiction.
I mention John Waters because the movie looks like something he would have thought up but without much of the humor. A concept with such highly charged subject matter needs to have a wickedly sharp sense of humor to operate fearlessly. But instead of such a sharp blade of humor it wields a club. And with that club it beats relentlessly on its theme until you beg for mercy. Thirty minutes in it has hammered home its point but unfortunately it never lets up for the entire running time.