Nickel Boys (2024)
Director: RaMell Ross Run Time: 140 min. Rating: PG-13 Release Year: 2024
Starring: Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Ethan Cole Sharp, Jase Stidwell, Najah Bradley, Sam Malone
Country: United States
Language: English
About the film: World Premiere, 2024 Telluride Film Festival
Elwood Curtis’ college dreams are shattered when he’s sentenced to Nickel Academy, a brutal reformatory in the Jim Crow South. Clinging to his optimistic worldview, Elwood strikes up a friendship with Turner, a fellow Black teen who dispenses fundamental tips for survival.
About the filmmaker:
RaMell Ross is an American filmmaker, photographer, academic, and writer best known for his 2018 documentary Hale County This Morning, This Evening and the 2024 film adaptation of the novel The Nickel Boys, for which he won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director.
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