Rated: PG-13; 140 minutes; in English; Directed by: RaMell Ross
Starring: Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor
Nominated for Best Picture at the Golden Globes, Nickel Boys follows Elwood whose college dream shatters alongside a two-lane Florida highway. Bearing the brunt of an innocent misstep, he's sentenced to the Nickel Academy, a brutal reformatory deep in the Jim Crow South, where he encounters another ward, Turner. The two 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.