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Nickel Boys is a 2024 American historical drama film based on the 2019 novel The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead. It was directed by RaMell Ross, who wrote the screenplay with Joslyn Barnes. Starring Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson, Hamish Linklater, Fred Hechinger, Daveed Diggs, Jimmie Fails, and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, the story follows two African-American boys, Elwood (Herisse) and Turner (Wilson), who are sent to…
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Nominated for 2 Academy Awards | Nominada a 2 premios de la academia In my last review (_Jellyfish_) I mentioned some coming-of-age films and included this title in the list, but after uploading the post I realized that, among all the posts I made in February about the Oscar-nominated films, I didn't get around to upload two of them before the night of the gala. One was the review of the Bob Dylan biopic, _A Complet…More
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Nickel Boys 1962, in the state of Florida. Young African American Elwood Curtis is wrongfully accused by the police of being an accomplice in a car theft. As a result, he is sent to the Nickel Academy reform school, which segregates Black and white students. While there, he befriends a young man named Turner, and together they try to survive the harsh methods of the institution’s corrupt administrators. Is it worth…More