Nickel Boys
12a
Dir: RaMell Ross
Cast: Ethan Cole Sharp, Sam Malone, Najah Bradley
140 mins
Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Colson Whitehead, this gorgeously cinematic drama is immersively told from the point of view of the main character.
The Nickel Boys is based on the historic reform school in 1960s Florida called the Dozier School for Boys, which was notorious for abusive treatment of students. It explores the story of Elwood Curtis, a young African-American boy who is sent to the Nickel Academy, a fictional version of the Dozier School, after he is falsely accused of a crime. While there, he meets a boy named Turner, and the two form a close friendship as they try to survive the horrors of the school and its corrupt administrators.
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