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Nickel Boys

Nickel Boys
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Released: October 25, 2024
Director: RaMell Ross
Producer: David Levine, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Joslyn Barnes
Studio: Orion Pictures
Cast: Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson, Hamish Linklater, Fred Hechinger, Daveed Diggs, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor
Genre: Drama
Length: 140 minutes

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Nickel Boys Overview

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 away from Rev. Martin Luther King’s burnished oratory. Despite Nickel’s brutality, Elwood strives to hold onto his humanity, awakening a new vision for Turner.

Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead.

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