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.
Nickel Boys
Nickel Boys
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Credits
Director:
- RaMell Ross
Cast:
- Ethan Herisse
- Brandon Wilson
- Hamish Linklater
- Fred Hechinger
- Daveed Diggs
- Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor
- Robert Aberdeen
Writers:
- Colson Whitehead
- Joslyn Barnes
- RaMell Ross
Producers:
- Allison Brandin
- Brad Pitt
- Chadwick Prichard
- Chelsea Krant
- Colson Whitehead
- David Levine
- Dede Gardner
- Emily Wolfe
- Gabby Shepard
- Jeffrey Penman
- Jeremy Kleiner
- Jonathan Schwartz
- Joslyn Barnes
- Kenneth Yu
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