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Nickel Boys

Release date: January 10, 2025

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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.

Showtimes

Kelowna: Grand 106:15

Additional details

Genre: Drama

Runtime: 140 min

Director: RaMell Ross

Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures

Producers: Dede Gardner, Joslyn Barnes, Jeremy Kleiner, David Levine

Screenplay: RaMell Ross, Joslyn Barnes

Cast: Ethan Herisse,Brandon Wilson,Hamish Linklater,Fred Hechinger,Daveed Diggs,Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor

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