Release Date
December 13, 2024 (LA/NY)
January 17, 2025
January 17, 2025
Director
RaMell Ross
Writer
RaMell Ross, Joslyn Barnes
Cast
Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson, Hamish Linklater, Fred Hechinger, Daveed Diggs, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor
Studio
Running Time
140 minutes
MPA Rating
Rated PG-13 for thematic material involving racism, some strong language including racial slurs, violent content and smoking
Elwood Curtis’s college dream shatters alongside a two-lane Florida highway. Bearing the brunt of an innocent misstep, he’s sentenced to the netherworld of Nickel Academy, a brutal reformatory sunk deep in the Jim Crow South. He encounters another ward, the seen-it-all Turner. The two Black teens strike up an alliance: Turner dispensing fundamental tips for survival, Elwood, clinging to his optimistic worldview. Backdropped by the burgeoning Civil Rights Movement, Elwood and Turner’s existence appear worlds... Full synopsis »
MOVIE REVIEW
In Nickel Boys, we get to go first-person-action mode in a drama about two Black boys unjustly sent to a segregated reform school in the Jim Crow South, 1962. But when the most compelling selling point of the film is its cinematography, that’s a problem.
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